Screening and Conversation: The Romey Lynchings

In the early morning hours of Friday, May 17, 1929, a Lebanese immigrant was lynched in Lake City, Florida. He was shot multiple times and left to die along a lonely stretch of the road heading south out of Lake City to Fort White.
N’oula Romey was the fourth victim of racial terror that year in Florida and was one of 10 people lynched by white mobs across the U.S. in 1929. His wife, Hasna (Fannie) Rahme, was fatally shot by Lake City police in their store. Their tragic murders were the most gruesome and violent attacks on Lebanese immigrants in the U.S., but this was not an isolated incident. Their killing was a part, and the culmination of, a widespread pattern of racially-motivated hostility, vitriol and physical abuse directed at early Arab immigrants who came to, worked and lived in America between the 1890s and the 1930s.
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