Posey County was the site of the largest recorded lynching of African Americans in Indiana's history. In October 1878, a white mob lynched seven black men in the span of a few days. No one in the mob was prosecuted, and at each court session for the next three years, the prosecutor asked the judge to "set the case over to the next session". A grand jury was called to investigate the mob action, but with an election pending for the prosecuting attorney, no one was ever indicted. Following years of research, Posey County judge Jim Redwine wrote a novel, Judge Lynch! (2008), based on the events. Redwine sometimes lectures on the riot, inviting his audience to imagine how they would have acted and stressing the injustice done to the African Americans who were denied the right to a fair trial.
Posey County was the site of the largest recorded lynching of African Americans in Indiana's history In October 1878 a white mob lynched seven black men in the span of a few days No one in the mob was prosecuted and at each court session for the next three years the prosecutor asked the judge to "set the case over to the next session" A grand jury was called to investigate the mob action but with an election pending for the prosecuting attorney no one was ever indicted Following years of research Posey County judge Jim Redwine wrote a novel Judge Lynch (2008) based on the events Redwine sometimes lectures on the riot inviting his audience to imagine how they would have acted and stressing the injustice done to the African Americans who were denied the right to a fair trial