Laura Nelson and Son Lynched in Oklahoma, Photos Sold as Postcards

Laura Nelson, a Black woman in Okemah, Oklahoma, and her teenage son L.D. were dragged from jail by a white mob, raped (in Laura's case), and hanged from a bridge over the North Canadian River. Photographs of their bodies were taken and sold as postcards, widely circulated. Her alleged crime was shooting a deputy sheriff who was taking her family's cow. The lynching photographs became among the most reproduced images in anti-lynching campaigns.