The story behind the song starts in Indiana in 1930. Three black men were in the county jail and awaiting trial for the death of a white man and supposed rape of his girlfriend. A mob gathered outside of the jail. The mob tried to get into the prison using sledgehammers. Eventually, the mob got into the jail, grabbed one of the man, Thomas Shipp, and started beating him. In the end, he was dead before the mob had even gotten him out of the jail. Regardless, they took him to the front of the courthouse and hung him on a rope. Then they went
The story behind the song starts in Indiana in 1930. Three black men were in the county jail and awaiting trial for the death of a white man and supposed rape of his girlfriend. A mob gathered outside of the jail. The mob tried to get into the prison using sledgehammers. Eventually, the mob got into the jail, grabbed one of the man, Thomas Shipp, and started beating him. In the end, he was dead before the mob had even gotten him out of the jail. Regardless, they took him to the front of the courthouse and hung him on a rope. Then they went