Milestones Jun. 26, 2006
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DIED. James Cameron, 92, only known survivor of a lynching attempt and founder of the America's Black Holocaust Museum in Milwaukee, a 12,000-sq.-ft. memorial to victims of racial persecution; in Milwaukee. After fleeing a 1930 attempted robbery in Marion, Ind., in which a man was killed, Cameron, 16, landed in jail with two friends, who were publicly lynched on a maple tree near the courthouse. As the noose tightened around his neck, he recalled hearing someone in the crowd shouting that he was innocent--and he was returned to jail for five years. After witnessing the U.S. Senate apologize last June for past failures to ban lynching, Cameron said, "It's 100-something years late, but I'm glad they are doing it."
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