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She was seventeen years old. A mob of about a dozen men took her out of a jail cell and hanged her in the street. Marie Scott. Wagoner, Oklahoma, 1914. Accounts of what happened are consistent on the core: a white man had forced his way into her home and attacked her, and her brother killed him defending her. Her brother escaped. So they took the girl instead. She is one of the very few documented lynching of a Black woman in Oklahoma, and one of the youngest women in the national record. Seventeen. Held in a cell, taken from a cell, and killed for surviving an assault that her attacker did not survive. Nobody was charged. Say her name — most people have never heard it once. Marie Scott was seventeen. Her story is one of up to 150 cases documented in our book. Most people have never heard her name. That’s exactly why we documented it. Get yours https://t.co/V6OJtazidd