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Lynching of Samuel J. Bush
Date	3 June 1893
Location	Decatur, Illinois, United States
Participants	Residents of Macon County, Illinois
Deaths	1

Here is a book.^[1]

Here is my most credible source.^[2]

Background

^ Ghaziani, Amin (2024). Long Live Queer Nightlife: How the Closing of Gay Bars Sparked a Revolution.
^ Goldberg, Naomi G.; Mallory, Christy; Hasenbush, Amira; Stemple, Lara; Meyer, Ilan H. (2019). "Police and the Criminalization of LGBT People". Cambridge handbook on policing in the United States: 374–391.

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Louise Wood, Amy, "Lynching and Spectacle: Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890-1940" (North Carolina, 2009).
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Cha-Jua, Sundiata Keita. "Join Hands and Hearts with Law and Order": The 1893 Lynching of Samuel J. Bush and the Response of Decatur's African American Community. "The Illinois Historical Journal, Vol. 83, No. 3 (Autumn, 1990): 187-200. Stable URL: JSTOR 40192304
Cha-Jua, Sundiata Keita. "A Warlike Demonstration": Legalism, Armed Resistance, and Black Political Mobilization in Decatur, Illinois, 1894-1898." The Journal of Negro History Vol. 83, No. 1 (Winter, 1998): 52-72. Stable URL: JSTOR 2668555