After many decades, evidence is surfacing of Isadore Banks’ vast properties! Cooper reports that “The Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project at Northeastern University’s School of Law has been investigating Banks’ case for over a year and has just made a remarkable discovery; The Project has found records proving what Banks’ family has known for […]
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Evidence of Isadore Banks’ properties surfaces
March 4, 2011 By Alice
Filed Under: Unsolved Tagged With: Civil Rights Era, Destroying Files, FBI, Isadore Banks, Lynching, Segregation
Tribute to Isadore Banks
April 7, 2010 By Alice

In June 1954, Isadore Banks (July 6, 1893 – June 5, 1954), an African-American veteran of World War I, was chained to a tree, doused in gasoline, and burned alive beyond recognition. Now the traditional three-shot volley salute and the solemn sound of taps echoed across the black cemetery in the Delta flatlands of Arkansas, just across the […]
Filed Under: Unsolved Tagged With: Civil Rights Era, Destroying Files, FBI, Isadore Banks, Lynching, Segregation