After witnessing the lynching of his two friends, James Cameron heard a mob of at least 5,000 people cry for his blood to be shed next.
A rope was put around his neck, and he was hung from the same tree as his two friends, but a voice from the crowd cried out to let him go, making him the only documented lynching survivor in history.
Patrick Sims, an associate professor of drama and theater at the University of Wisconsin- Madison, wrote and performed a one-man play, ?10 Perfect: A Lynching Survivor?s Story,? that incorporated fiction to tell Cameron?s story Friday night in the Lory Student Center. Black Definition put on the event in honor of Black History Month.