Biography
Norman Thibodaux, also spelled Thibodeaux in the editorial note, survived a racist lynching at Labadieville on October 11, 1933. His first-person account and the editors describe seizure from his grandmother’s home, beating, torture and hanging beside Freddy Moore, who died. The bridge-tender intervened and his son cut the rope; chief deputy Ferdinand Richard then took Thibodaux into the country and tried to shoot him. After escape to New Orleans and seeking medical help, police held him five days. The report says the white girl’s stepfather confessed to the killing falsely attributed to the two youths. The ILD brought Thibodaux to New York. The initial mob seizure and later New Orleans police detention are separate; neither is expanded into an invented continuous interval. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/labordefender/1934/v10n02-feb-1934-lab-def.pdf#page=30