WARNING: What you’re abiyt ti gear is a true story, told by the suvivor of a violent and horrisying attack. You need to know that some of the descriptions are graphic, some of the words used are offensive.
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James Cameron was born in 1914 in LaCrosse, Wisconsin. When he was a child, his family moved to Marion, Indiana.
It was there, in the summer of 1930, that James Cameron survived a lynching attempt.
He was a suspect in a robbery-and-murder case in Marion, Indiana along with two older teenagers. Both of them were lynched, and died. Cameron was to be the third victim of the Ku Klux Klan-led mob.
They tied a noose around Cameron’s neck, and death appeared imminent. But just as he was about to be hanged, a mysterious female voice was heard, saying Cameron was innocent.
A star local football player then stepped up, removed the noose and saved Cameron.
He did do prison time, but lived to tell about it.
I met him in the spring of 1994, when he wrote a book about his near-lynching.
So here now, from 1994, James Cameron.
In later years, Cameron became a civil rights activist and founded three chapters of the NAACP in Indiana.
James Cameron died in 2006. He was 92.