Nearly lynched on a grim night in 1960

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/3826198.html

April 28, 2006, 11:56AM
1933 FELTON TURNER 2006

Felton Turner, a Houston man who was attacked in 1960 by white supremacists in retaliation for the student sit-ins of the nascent civil rights movement and had the letters KKK carved into his stomach before being left dangling from a tree limb, died Sunday. He was 73. snip

Once in the car, the men began beating Turner with a chain. As reported in the March 9 edition of the Houston Post, Turner told investigators that the men said they had been "hired to do a job" because of all the sit-ins.

It did not matter that Turner was not involved in the movement or that he wasn't even a student at TSU. He was black. And that was enough.

They took him to a deserted wooded area near West 17th, where Turner later recounted, one of the men said: "Give him the works."

The beating with the chain continued for about 30 minutes, then a knife was drawn. Turner, fearing for his life, pretended to be unconscious as the men carved into his body.

[MissWaverly]

1. he's now in more merciful hands than ours

[CrazyOrangeCat]

2. That kind of hatred has been kept smoldering . . .

. . . by the likes of Rush Limpballs.

Never, ever let up on these evil scumbags.