a very rare and historically significant cabinet card, THE ONLY ONE KNOWN TO EXIST from the lynching of Harrison & James Gellespie of Salisbury, NC. The cabinet card was found in a Greensboro attic in its present condition. Tape to top portion, with age-appropriate ware. Otherwise, fine and original condition. - In 1902, a mob lynched James and Harrison Gillespie (of the same Gillespie family), aged eleven and thirteen, for allegedly murdering a young white woman as she hoed corn on her family's farm. They matched a bare footprint in the mud to accuse them. While being escorted to the jail house an angry mob took them at gunpoint. 4 days later the leader of the mob was arrested. In 2017 a historical marker was placed, acknowledging the lynchings that took place in Rowan County between 1902 and 1930. The marker now sits adjacent to the Rowan County Detention Center and close to the original Rowan County Courthouse — from which three Black men, Jack Dillingham, Nease Gillespie and John Gillespie were abducted and dragged to what is now North Long Street and lynched by a white mob in 1906. The three had been accused of the ax murders the Lyerlys, a white family who lived in the Unity Township at Barber Junction. Just four years earlier, Harrison and James Gillespie, aged 13 and 11, were lynched. Rev. Olen Bruner, co-chair of Actions in Faith and Justice, said the purpose of Friday’s event and the symbolic installation wasn’t lynching. It was inequity. “It’s about understanding what has happened in our past so that we can talk with another to create a brand new future,” Bruner said. “I’m a firm believer that this is not an erection to some horrific act that took place. History is history. A lot of bad things happened in our past. But when we’re able to come face-to-face with another, talk about it to understand what happened or, more important, how do we go forward is really what this remembrance should be about.”

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