This is a famous picture, taken in 1930, showing tho young black men accused of raping a white girl, hanged by a mob of 10,000 white men. The mob took them by for ce from the county jailhouse. Another black man was saved from lynching by the girl’s uncle who said he was innocent. Even if lynching photos were designed to boo st white supremacy, the tortured bodies and grotesquel y happy crowds ended up revolting many. #FamousPicture