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[[Image:Leandershaw.jpg|thumb|right|Leander Shaw's body after being lynched]]'''Leander Shaw''' (d. [[July 2829]], [[1908]]) was a black man accused of the robbery, rape and murder of a white woman, [[Lillie Brewton Davis]].
After the crime, Shaw was allegedly found rinsing his bloody shirt in [[Pensacola Bay]], arrested and taken to the hospital where Davis, whose throat had been cut, positively identified him before dying. Headlines from the ''[[Pensacola Journal]]'' announced the "Brutal Assault by Burly Negro Upon White Lady."
