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Revisiting the story of Clementine Barnabet, a Black woman blamed for serial murders in the Jim Crow South

  • Written by Lauren Nicole Henley, Assistant Professor of Leadership Studies, University of Richmond
imageA grainy photograph of Clementine Barnabet.A 1912 edition of The Atlanta Constitution newspaper via Wikimedia Commons

In April 1912, a young Black woman named Clementine Barnabet confessed to murdering four families in and around Lafayette, Louisiana. The widespread news coverage at the time effectively branded her a serial killer.

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