Cordie Cheek

Cordie Cheek: Cordie Cheek (1916 – 15 December 1933) was the African American victim of a race-hate murder.

Cheek lived in Fisk University-owned housing and was not a student there. There are many stories about the reason for his murder, but the most common are:

Cheek was riding a bike and struck a little white girl

Cheek raped a white woman and was freed because of lack of evidence

Cheek failed to address a white youth his own age as "mister"

The story of the little girl was when Cheek was riding his bike and while passing a little girl on the bike they collided. The big brother of the little girl told her to tell everyone that Cheek assaulted her and to do that for a dollar. The little girl went on with the story. A mob of men were at the gates of Fisk and abducted Cheek. On December 15, he was lynched, some say he was hanging from a tree in Maury County, Tennessee.

John Hope Franklin protested against what happened to everyone, including the President of the United States.

References

The Reflector article by Thomas J. Sellers

personal page by tim wood's

Introduction to African American Studies

Oral History Interview wit John Hope Franklin, July 27 1990

A Road from Rentiesville by Leon F. Litwack

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Victims
Will Brown (1919) · Cordie Cheek (1933) · Joe Coe (1891) · Anthony Crawford (1916) · Michael Donald (1981) · Wesley Everest (1919) · Leo Frank (1915) · Raymond Gunn (1931) · Sam Hose (1899) · Ed Johnson (1906) · Frank Little (1917) · Steve Long (1868) · Laura and Lawrence Nelson (1911) · Mack Charles Parker (1959) · George Parrott (1881) · Ell Persons (1917) · Henry Plummer (1864) · Robert Prager (1918) · Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith (1930) · Bill Sketoe (1864) · Henry Smith (1893) · Hyrum Smith (1844) · Joseph Smith (1844) · Lamar Smith (1955) · Joseph Standing (1879) · Emmett Till (1955) · Mary Turner (1918) · Jesse Washington (1916)

Incidents
Duluth lynchings (1920) · East St. Louis Riot · Omaha Race Riot of 1919 · Reno Gang (1868) · Tulsa race riot · Rosewood massacre ·

Issues
Jim Crow laws · Lynching · Lynching in the United States · Nadir of American race relations · Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill

Songs
Strange Fruit

Writers
James Allen · Ida B. Wells

Categories
Lynching in the United States · Lynching deaths in the United States

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