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A paper which analyses an article describing the only lynching in Clarke County, Georgia, with reference to the actions of the black and the white population and the perspective of the media in reporting the issues.
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of Eberhart is so often cited is that it was the last recorded lynching in Athens, Clarke County and (unusually for the state of Georgia) was apparently the only lynching
ever to take place in Athens. However, as Wilkes points out, the statistics available on lynchings are not entirely reliable: not all cases were reported, and the statistics do not
take into account those victims who were badly injured by lynch mobs, but not actually killed. The actual figures, therefore, are probably considerably higher than those recorded even though, as
Wilkes notes, even the recorded figures are damning enough - over a period of fifty years, there was on average one black person per week lynched in the South. A
noticeable feature of the Eberhart case, however, is that there seems to have been a clear divide between those, both black and white, who were prepared to allow the law
to take its course in the proper manner, and those who were not.
The actual crime in the Eberhart case took place not in Clarke County itself but in the neighbouring Oconee County - Eberhart ended up in Athens jail, ironically enough, for
his own protection since it was felt that he would not receive fair treatment in Oconee County. The murder victim was a farmers wife, Ida Lee, who was killed by
a shotgun blast on February 16th, 1921. Eberhart was employed by the Lee family and had, allegedly, stolen a shotgun from Mrs Lees husband: he was therefore a prime suspect.
Police, accompanied by Eberharts father, looked for him in Athens where he was supposed to be visiting a friend; they failed to locate him but Eberharts friend later called to
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