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THIRTY YEARS OF LYNCHING
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UNITED STATES
1889-1918
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The Massacre of East St. Louis ; an account of an Investigation by W. E. Burg- hardt Du Bois and Martha Gruening, for the N. A. A. C. P., illustrated, 20 pages, reprinted from The Crisis for September, 1917.
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The Lynching of Anthony Crawford (at Abbeville, S. C., October 21, 1916). Article by Roy Nash (then) Secretary, N. A. A. C. P.; reprinted from the Independent for December, 1916; 4 pages, large size.
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THIRTY YEARS OF LYNCHING
IN THE
UNITED STATES
1889-1918
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Published by the
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
National Office
70 Fifth Avenue, New York
APRIL, 1919
PRICE
FIFTY CENTS
THIRTY YEARS OF LYNCHING 1889-1918
CONTENTS
PAGE
Foreword 5
Summation of the Facts Disclosed in Tables (Appendix I) 7
The Story of One Hundred Lynchings 11
Appendix I — Analyses of Number of Persons Lynched 29
Appendix II — Chronological List of Persons Lynched in United States, 1S89 to 1918, Inclusive, Arranged by States 43
FOREWORD
Until the recent outbreaks in Germany, where, under revolu- tionary conditions, a few lynchings have taken place, the United States has for long been the only advanced nation whose govern- ment has tolerated lynching. The facts are well known to students of public affairs. It is high time that they became the common property, since they are the common shame, of all Americans.
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peo- ple, within the limits of its financial resources, has been carrying on an educational and publicity campaign in the public press, through its own pamphlet publications and the columns of The Crisis, and through public meetings, to bring home to the American people their responsibility for the persistence of this monstrous blot upon America’s honor. Lynching has had, and to some degree still has, its apologists, who have alleged one and another excuse for it in given cases. But, none of the several pleas which has been made to explain or excuse it can stand the light of reason or find the slightest real justification in a nation gov- erned by law, which has found ample means to cope with lawless- ness whenever and wherever the public authorities have taken seriously their oaths of office.
On July 26, 1918, when the nation was at war with the Central Powers, President Wilson appealed to “the governors of all the states, the law officers of every community and, above all, the men and women of every community in the United States, all who revere America and wish to keep her name without stain or reproach, (to) cooperate, not passively merely, but actively and watchfully, to make an end of this disgraceful evil,” saying, “It cannot live where the community does not countenance it.”
Despite President Wilson’s earnest appeal, made under such extraordinary circumstances, lynchings continued during the remaining period of the war with unabated fury. Sixty-three Negroes, five of them women, and four white men fell victims to mob ruthlessness during 1918 and in no case was any member of the mobs convicted in any court and in only two instances were trials held. In both of these instances the mob members were
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acquitted. One case was that of the lynchers of the white man, Robert P. Praeger, in Illinois, the other that of the lynchers of a Negro, Will Bird, in Alabama.
The present publication, “Thirty Years of Lynching in the United States, 1889-1918,” sums up the facts for this period. It is believed that more persons have been lynched than those whose names are given in Appendix II following. Only such cases have been included as were authenticated by such evidence as was given credence by a recognized newspaper or confirmed by a responsible investigator.
In presenting this material we have refrained from editorial comment, restricting our text to a brief summary of the facts which are more fully illustrated in the tables printed in Appendix I. In addition to the two appendices named, and to the sum- mary of the facts disclosed in the tables, we have included a short summary of the actual happenings in the cases of one hundred persons lynched, as taken from press accounts and, in a few cases, from the reports of our own investigators. These data appear under the heading, The Story of One Hundred. Lynchings.
Acknowledgment is made to Miss Martha Gruening and to Miss Helen Boardman, who assisted her, for work done in exam- ining the files of leading newspapers and other records for a period of thirty years and in compiling data from which The Story of One Hundred Lynchings has been taken.
John R. Shillady, Secretary.
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
SUMMATION OF THE FACTS DISCLOSED IN TABLES
More or less accurate records of lynchings have been kept by the Chicago Tribune, Tuskegee Institute and, since 1912, The Crisis and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. These records go back to 1885. In the present study of the subject, we have confined ourselves to the story of the past thirty years, from 1889 to 1918, inclusive. During these years 3,224 persons have been killed by lynching mobs.* Seven hundred and two white persons and 2,522 Negroes have been victims, f Of the whites lynched, 691 have been men and 11 women; of the colored, 2,472 were men and 50 were women. For the whole period, 78.2 per cent, of the victims were Negroes and 21.8 per cent, white persons.
Distribution of the Lynchings
For the thirty years’ period as a whole, the North has had 219 victims, the South, 2,834, the West, 156, and Alaska and unknown localities, 15 victims. An examination of Table No. 3 will show that the eight South Atlantic States are responsible for 862 of the total of 2,834 for the South as a whole; the four East South Central States have had 1,014 victims, and the four West South Central States 958. Georgia leads in this unholy ascendancy with 386 victims, followed closely by Mississippi with 373 vic- tims, Texas with 335, Louisiana with 313, Alabama with 276, Arkansas with 214, Tennessee with 196, Florida with 178 and Kentucky with 169. The nine states above named are those
* A total of 181 persons has been eliminated from the total number of persons lynched (43 white, 138 colored), as shown in annual summaries in The Crisis. (See following foot-note.)
t The Crisis, annual summaries of the number of persons lynched for the thirty years’ period, show a total of 745 white persons and 2,650 colored. The Crisis' figures are based, for the years prior to 1912, upon Chicago Tri- bune figures. Forty -three white persons and 138 colored have not been included in the present study because we have been unable, due to imper- fections in the available data, to record the name of person lynched and the date, place and alleged cause of the lynching. Had these eliminated persons been included, concerning whose lynching there is strong proba- bility, our total would have been 3,405.
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which, for the thirty years’ period, have each a percentage of the total number of lynchings in excess of five per cent.
Fifty colored women and 11 white women were lynched in 14 states. Thirteen of the 14 states in which women fell victims to mobs were Southern states, Nebraska being the only state outside the South which lynched women.
Comparing the northern, southern and western states by five years’ periods (see Table No. 5), the following is noted:
NUMBER OF PERSONS LYNCHED
|
Geographical Division |
1889- 1893 |
1894- 1898 |
1899- 1903 |
1904- 1908 |
1909- 1913 |
1914- 1918 |
|
The North |
66 |
73 |
44 |
9 |
15 |
12 |
|
The South |
690 |
661 |
474 |
362 |
343 |
304 |
|
The West |
76 |
34 |
24 |
9 |
4 |
9 |
This summation shows that while in all sections of the country there has been a progressive decrease in the number of lynchings at each of the five years’ periods, this decrease in the North and West has far outrun the decrease in the South. The North and West together have lynched 21 persons during the last five years’ period, whereas during the same time 304 persons were lynched in the South.
Georgia began the first five years’ period with 61 lynchings and ended the last five years’ period with exactly the same num- ber. This number, by the way, was the lowest, with one excep- tion, which Georgia reached during the thirty years. Alabama, on the contrary, began with 84, a number one-third greater than Georgia’s, which had been reduced during the last five years’ period to 19. Mississippi began with 91 for the first period and ended with 28 in the latter five years’ period. Georgia and Texas alone, of all the states, have made no proportionate decrease in the number of lynchings during the thirty years’ period. Texas shows an increase during the last five years over her record for three preceding five years’ periods.
In considering these facts it should be borne in mind that the number of lynchings has steadily been decreasing. When, there-
Summation of the Facts Disclosed in Tables 9
fore, Georgia and Texas show no decrease in the former state and only a small decrease in the latter state, it means that relative to the country as a whole, lynchings have been on the increase in these two states.
Decrease in Lynching During Past Thirty Years
Table No. 8 shows the percentage of decrease in the number of persons lynched during each five years’ period. Comparing the five years, 1914-1918, with the five years, 1889-1893, the table shows a decrease of 61.3 per cent, in the total number of persons lynched. The percentage of decrease in the number of whites lynched was 77.6 and of colored, 54.4. Since 1903 the number of whites lynched has been decreasing steadily. The increase for the period 1914-1918 to 61 white persons lynched is largely accounted for by the fact that in 1915, 43 whites were lynched. Twenty-seven of these were Mexicans who were lynched in the state of Texas. Many citizens of Texas look upon Mexicans in somewhat the same way as they look upon Negroes (alas for democracy), so that the lynching of this number of Mexicans would not be regarded by them in the same light as would the lynching of so many white Texans or other white citizens of the United States.
Except in 1915 and in 1909 and 1910, the number of whites lynched in any year since 1903 has been less than ten. The per- centage of whites lynched in the first ten years’ period of our study was 30 per cent; in the second ten years’ period, 12.4 per cent, and in the third ten years’ period, 15 per cent.
Alleged Offenses which Appear as “Causes” for the Lynchings
Table No. 6 sums up the known facts regarding the alleged offenses committed by the men and women lynched. It is to be remembered that the alleged offenses given are pretty loose de- scriptions of the crimes charged against the mob victims, where actual crime was committed. Of the whites lynched, nearly 46 per cent were accused of murder; a little more than 18 per cent were accused of what have been classified as miscellaneous crimes, i.e., all crimes not otherwise classified; 17.4 per cent were said to have committed crimes against property; 8.7 per cent crimes
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against the person, other than rape, “attacks upon women,” and murder; while 8.4 per cent were accused of rape and “attacks upon women.”
Among colored victims, 35.8 per cent were accused of murder; 28.4 per cent of rape and “attacks upon women” (19 per cent of rape and 9.4 per cent of “attacks upon women”); 17.8 per cent of crimes against the person (other than those already mentioned) and against property; 12 per cent were charged with miscel- laneous crimes and in 5.6 per cent of cases no crime at all was charged. The 5.6 per cent, classified under “Absence of Crime” does not include a number of cases in which crime was alleged but in which it was afterwards shown conclusively that no crime had been committed. Further, it may fairly be pointed out that in a number of cases where Negroes have been lynched for rape and “attacks upon white women,” the alleged attacks rest upon no stronger evidence than “entering the room of a woman” or brushing against her. In such cases as these latter the victims and their friends have often asserted that there was no intention on the part of the victim to attack a white woman or to commit rape. In many cases, of course, the evidence points to bona fide attacks upon women.
An examination of Table No. 7 shows that the decreases in succeeding five years’ periods in the number of victims charged with rape and “attacks upon women” have been more pro- nounced than for any other alleged cause. The percentage of Negroes lynched for alleged rape and attacks upon white women (compared with the total number of Negroes lynched for all causes) in the several five years’ periods is shown in the follow- ing summary:
|
1889- |
1894- |
1899- |
1904- |
1909- |
1914- |
|
1893 |
1898 |
1903 |
1908 |
1913 |
1918 |
|
31.8 |
30.7 |
28.1 |
27 |
28 |
19.8 |
It is apparent that lynchings of Negroes for other causes than the so-called “one crime” have for the whole period been a large majority of all lynchings and that for the past five years, less than one in five of the colored victims have been accused of rape or “attacks upon women” (rape, 11 per cent; attacks upon women, 8.8 per cent; total, 19.8 per cent).
THE STORY OF ONE HUNDRED LYNCHINGS*
To give concreteness and to make vivid the facts of lynching in the United States, we give below in chronological order an account of one hundred lynchings which have occurred in the period from 1894 to 1918. These “stories,” as they are technically described in newspaper parlance, have been taken from press accounts and, in a few cases, from the reports of investigations made by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Covering twenty-five years of American history, these accounts serve to present a characteristic picture of the lynching sport, as it was picturesquely defined by Henry Watterson.
The last of the “stories” describes one of the rare events in con- nection with lynchings, that of the conviction of members of a mob involved in such affairs. In this case no lynching was con- summated, it having been prevented by the prompt and public- spirited action of the mayor of the city (Winston-Salem, North Carolina), and members of the “Home Guard” and Federal troops who defended the jail against a mob.
ALABAMA, 1894
Three Negroes, Tom Black, Johnson Williams and Tony Johnston, were lynched at Tuscumbia, Alabama. They were in the local jail, awaiting trial on the charge of having burnt a bam. A mob of two hundred masked men entered the jail, after having enticed away the jailer with a false message, took the keys from the jailer’s wife and secured the three prisoners. They were carried to a near-by bridge. Here a rope was placed around the neck of each victim, the other end being tied to the timbers of the bridge, and they were compelled to jump.
New York Tribune, April 23, 1894.
TENNESSEE, 1894
Six Negroes, Daniel Hawkins, Robert Haines, Warner Miller, Edward Hale, John Hayes and Glenn White, were taken from the custody of detec- tive W. S. Richardson and shot to death at Millington, Tennessee, Septem- ber 1st.
* One hundred persons lynched, not one hundred occasions on which lynch- ings occurred.
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They were charged with bam burning but none of them had been tried. The prisoners, who were handcuffed together in a wagon, were ambushed and shot as Richardson was driving them down a ravine. He had been led into the ambush by being told that the bridge he wished to cross had been washed away.
The Coroner’s jury reported that the Negroes came to their death “at the hands of parties unknown.”
New York Tribune, Sept. 2, 1894.
TEXAS, 1895
News has been received of the lynching of a Negro in this part of Madison County on Tuesday night. He was accused of riding his horse over a little white girl and inflicting serious injuries on her. Later developments go to show that the mob got hold of the wrong negro. The guilty one made his escape.
Chicago Tribune, November 22, 1895.
TEXAS, 1897
Robert Henson Hilliard, a Negro, for a murder to which he confessed and for alleged rape, was burned to death by a mob at Tyler, Texas. Hilliard confessed the murder but stated that he killed his victim because he had un- wittingly frightened her and feared that he would be killed.
A report of the crime and its punishment was written by an eye-witness and printed by a local publishing house. It ended as follows:
"Note: Hilliard’s power of endurance was the most wonderful thing on record. His lower limbs burned off before he became unconscious and his body looked to be burned to the hollow. Was it decreed by an avenging God as well as an avenging people that his sufferings should be prolonged beyond the ordinary endurance of mortals?
The End
“We have sixteen large views under powerful magnifying lenses now on exhibition. These views are true to life and show the Negro’s attack, the scuffle, the murder, the body as found, etc. With eight views of the trial and burning. For place of exhibit see street bills. Don’t fail to see this."
Breckenridge-Scruggs Co.
No indictments were found against any of the mob’s members.
GEORGIA, 1899
Sam Hose, a Negro farm laborer, was accused of murdering his employer in a quarrel over wages. He escaped. Several days later, while he was being hunted unsuccessfully, the charge was added that he raped his employer’s wife. He confessed the murder, but refused, even under duress, to confess the other crime.
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The following account of the lynching is taken from the New York Tribune for April 24, 1899:
“In the presence of nearly 2,000 people, who sent aloft yells of defiance and shouts of joy, Sam Hose (a Negro who committed two of the basest acts known to crime) was burned at the stake in a public road, one and a half miles from here. Before the torch was applied to the pyre, the Negro was deprived of his ears, fingers and other portions of his body with surpris- ing fortitude. Before the body was cool, it was cut to pieces, the bones were crushed into small bits and even the tree upon which the wretch met his fate was torn up and disposed of as souvenirs.
“The Negro’s heart was cut in several pieces, as was also his liver. Those unable to obtain the ghastly relics directly, paid more fortunate possessors extravagant sums for them. Small pieces of bone went for 25 cents and a bit of the liver, crisply cooked, for 10 cents."
No indictments were ever found against any of the lynchers.
LOUISIANA, 1899
A peculiarly horrible affair occurred two days ago at Lindsay, near Jack- son, La. Mitchell Curry, hearing that someone was in his cornfield, took two Negroes and went to drive away the intruder. There had been an at- tempted assault on a white woman by a Negro, Val Bages, and by some unexplained course of reasoning, Mitchell Curry, on seeing a large Negro in the field, became convinced that the man was the criminal.
The fellow took flight, was followed, and finally climbed a magnolia tree. The tree was surrounded and the Negro ordered to remain where he was while one of the pursuers was sent for rope to hang him. Presently, however, the man deliberately slid down out of the tree, and halfway down he was shot to death. On examination of the body the man’s clothing marked No. 43, was found to be that worn at the State Insane Asylum in the neighboring town of Jackson. On investigation it was learned that the insane occupant had escaped a few days before and the helpless fellow, wandering at large, had suffered death for a crime he had not committed.
Special despatch to New York Tribune, July 27, 1899.
FLORIDA, 1901
Will Wright and Sam Williams, charged with being implicated in a mur- der, were lynched without trial in jail at Dade City, by a mob of thirty or more men. Sheriff Griffin refused to give up the keys and they broke down the outer door. Unable to break down the steel doors of the cells, they opened fire through the steel bars, shooting both the Negroes to death.
The Coroner’s jury found that they came to their death at the hands of “parties unknown.”
New York Tribune, February 7, 1901.
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TENNESSEE, 1901
Bailie Crutchfield, a colored woman, was lynched by a mob at Rome, Tennessee, because her brother stole a purse.
The mob took Crutchfield from the custody of the sheriff, and started with him for the place of execution, when he broke from them and escaped.
"This,” says the despatch, “so enraged the mob, that they suspected Crutch- field’s sister of being implicated in the theft and last night's work was the culmination of that suspicion.”
The Coroner’s jury found the usual verdict that the woman came to her death at the hands of parties unknown.
New York Tribune, March 16, 1901.
LOUISIANA, 1901
Louis Thomas, at Girard, La., a Negro, broke into a local store and stole six bottles of soda-pop. He was later found by a white man named Brown, disposing of its contents, and on being accused of theft, struck his accuser. Brown procured a rifle and shot the Negro twice through the body, but as neither wound proved fatal, a mob of white men took the Negro from the house where he lay wounded and strung him up.
New York Tribune, July 16, 1901.
GEORGIA, 1903
Griffin, Ga. — William Fambro, a Negro, was shot to death on the out- skirts of this city late last night by a mob of white men, who fired on his house. Fambro’s wife, who was in the house, escaped injury. The Negro some time ago was arrested on the charge of insulting a white woman and was tried and sentenced to a term in the county chain gang. His fine afterwards was paid by his employer. Over a thousand shots were sent into the building before the mob retired.
Special to the Chicago Tribune, February 24, 1903.
DELAWARE, 1903
George White, a Negro, accused of rape and murder, was taken out of jail at Wilmington, Del., dragged to the scene of his alleged crime and forced to confess. He was tied to a stake, burned and riddled with bullets, even as he was being burned. The Chamber of Commerce of Wilmington, which met a few days later, refused to pass a resolution condemning the lynching but passed one against forest fires.
New York Tribune, June 23, 24, 1903.
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GEORGIA, 1903
A mob, formed near Liberty County, pursued through seven counties a Negro supposed to be Ed Claus, who had assaulted Susie Johnson, a young white woman, and lynched him, hanging him and shooting him full of holes. After he was lynched it was found he was not Claus.
New York Tribune, July 27, 1903.
MISSISSIPPI, 1904
Luther Holbert, a Doddsville Negro, and his wife were burned at the stake for the murder of James Eastland, a white planter, and John Carr, a Negro. The planter was killed in a quarrel which arose when he came to Carr’s cabin, where he found Holbert, and ordered him to leave the plantation. Carr and a Negro, named Winters, were also killed.
Holbert and his wife fled the plantation but were brought back and burned at the stake in the presence of a thousand people. Two innocent Negros had been shot previous to this by a posse looking for Holbert, because one of them, who resembled Holbert, refused to surrender when ordered to do so. There is nothing in the story to indicate that Holbert’s wife had any part in the crime.
New York Tribune, February 8, 1904.
ALABAMA, 1904
For murdering and robbing a peddler, Horace Maples, a Negro, was hung and then shot full of holes at Huntsville, September 7th. The mob secured his release from jail by building a fire in the hallway in the jail, the jailer sur- rendering the prisoner finally because there seemed no other way of saving the other prisoners from asphyxiation.
Ray Stannard Baker, “Following the Color Line.”
GEORGIA, 1904
For the brutal murder of a white family (the Hodges family) at States- boro’, Georgia, two Negroes, Paul Reed and Will Cato, were burned alive in the presence of a large crowd. They had been duly convicted and sen- tenced, when the mob broke into the courtroom and carried them away, in spite of the plea of a brother of the murdered man, who was present in the court, that the law be allowed to take its course. None of the lynchers were ever indicted.
Ray Stannard Baker, “Following the Color Line,” Chicago Tribune, December 31, 1904.
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GEORGIA, 1904
Because of the race prejudice growing out of the Hodges murder by Reed and Cato and their lynching, Albert Roger and his son were lynched at Statesboro’, Ga., August 17, for being Negroes. A number of other Negroes were whipped for no other offense.
Ray Stannard Baker’s “Following the Color Line,” Chicago Tribune, December 31, 1904.
GEORGIA, 1904
On account of the race riots which grew out of the above murder (Hodges) and lynching, McBride, a respectable Negro of Portal, Ga., was beaten, kicked and shot to death for trying to defend his wife, who was confined with a baby, three days old, from a whipping at the hands of a crowd of white men.
Ray Stannard Baker, “Following the Color Line,” Chicago Tribune, December 31, 1904.
GEORGIA, 1905
At Watkinsville, Georgia, a masked mob entered the jail at 2 A.M. and took out nine prisoners, one white man and eight Negroes. Eight were shot to death and one, a Negro, escaped only by shamming death. The mob overpowered the town marshall and the jailer, carried the men out and tied them to fence posts by their necks and then fired five volleys into their bodies. Only one of the prisoners had been convicted. This was Rich Allen, a Negro, under sentence of death for the murder of another Negro. All the others were awaiting trial, the various charges against them being murder, larceny and attempted rape. The mob had announced its intention of clearing the jail, but one Negro, charged with gambling on the misdemeanor side of the jail, escaped their notice.
New York Tribune, June 30, 1905.
LOUISIANA, 1906
For the crime of killing a white man’s cow, William Carr, a Negro, was killed at Planqucmincs, Louisiana. The lynching was conducted in a most orderly manner, Carr being taken from the Sheriff without resistance by a mob of thirty masked men, hurried to the nearest railroad bridge and hanged without ceremony.
Despatch to New York Tribune, March 18, 1900.
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TENNESSEE, 1906
Ed Johnson, a Negro, convicted of rape and sentenced to be hanged, was granted an appeal by the Supreme Court of the United States. Johnson was in jail at Chattanooga, Tennessee. A mob broke down the jail door, took him out and hanged him.
New York Tribune, March 20, 1900.
SOUTH CAROLINA, 1906
For attempting to enter a house and frightening a child who was alone in it, Willie Spain, a young Negro at St. George, S. C., was taken from jail and hung to a tree. The mob then shot five hundred bullets into his body.
New York Tribune, August 24, 1906.
ARKANSAS, 1910
Pine Bluff, Ark., March 25. — Resenting alleged improper conduct on the part of Judge Jones, a Negro, and a young white woman, a mob of forty men gathered at the county jail here tonight, overpowered the jailer and his deputies, and hanged the Negro.
Special to the Chicago Tribune, March 26, 1910.
KENTUCKY, 1911 Shelbyville, Ky., January 15, 1911
(Special)
Just at sunrise this morning two local Negroes took the hemp cure for pro- pensity to insult white women. So effective was it that the mob who admin- istered it decided to hold one more clinic. At this session an aged Negro paid the penalty for beheading a Negro woman.
An unusual feature of the lynching was that the two young Negroes who were strung up for insulting white girls, both broke the rope by which they were suspended. Each made a dash for safety and was riddled with bullets, although one of the bodies has not yet been discovered, and the suspicion is that he crawled to some underbrush to die. The mob numbered only twenty men, all masked.
Before they went to the Shelby County jail, the lynchers raided a black- smith shop and obtained sledge hammers and bolt cutters and other tools. On account of the smallness of the mob and the conduct of its members, en- trance was gained to the jail office before the deputies on watch realized that a lynching was to be attempted. The officials were covered with a dozen rifles and ordered to give up the keys to the cells, but this they refused to do, and the lynchers did not insist. Instead, they began battering down the cell doors with the sledges and the bolt cutters. When they had taken Wade Patterson and Jim West from their cells, some one suggested that they might
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as well hang old Gene Marshall, a Negro awaiting death sentence. All three Negroes pleaded for their lives but the lynchers paid no attention to them. The lynching was devoid of the minor brutalities that frequently mark such occasions. There was no abuse of the prisoners. The mob was made of quiet, determined men whose mission was to execute but not to torture. The prisoners were led in silence to the Chesapeake and Ohio bridge over the Emminance Pike. . . . The two Negroes were to have been arraigned to- morrow.
Special to the Chicago Tribune, January 16, 1911.
OKLAHOMA, 1911
At Okemah, Oklahoma, Laura Nelson, a colored woman, accused of mur- dering a deputy sheriff who had discovered stolen goods in her house, was lynched together with her son, a boy about fifteen. The woman and her son were taken from the jail, dragged about six miles to the Canadian River, and hanged from a bridge. The woman was raped by members of the mob before she was hanged.
The Crisis, July, 1911.
FLORIDA, 1911
At Lake City, Fla., a Negro named Norris quarreled with a white man, apparently over a trivial matter, the result being a murderous assault on the Negro by the white man. The matter came up before a justice of the peace and the Negro was exonorated.
Later, the white man accompanied by several other white men, came to the Negro’s house and reopened the quarrel. In the shooting affray that fol- lowed one white man was killed and another wounded. Norris and his asso- ciates awaited the coming of the sheriff and surrendered to him. Six of them were arrested and sent to Lake City for safe-keeping. A party of lynchers gained admission to the jail by means of a forged telegram and secured the Negroes under pretext of taking them to Jacksonville for greater pro- tection. They then took them to the outskirts of the town and shot them to death.
Investigation by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
SOUTH CAROLINA, 1911
Will Jackson was lynched at Honcapath, S. C., for an alleged attack on a white child. He was hanged to a tree by his feet and his body riddled with bullets. Ilis fingers were cut off for souvenirs. The mob was led by Joshua W. Ashlcigh, a local member of the State Legislature, and his son, while Victor II. Chcsirc, editor of a local newspaper, The Intelligencer, after taking part in the lynching, got out a special edition telling about it in the follow- ing words: “The Intelligencer man went out to sec the fun without the least
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objection to being a party to help lynch the brute.” The then Governor of the State, Cole Blease, absolutely refused to use the power of his office to bring the lynchers to justice, and the Coroner’s jury found that the Negro came to his death “at the hands of parties unknown.”
The Crisis, December, 1911.
GEORGIA, 1911
Two colored men, Allen and Watts, were lynched in Monroe, Georgia, one for an alleged attack on a white woman, the other for “loitering in a suspicious manner.” Judge Chas. H. Brand ordered Allen brought to Mon- roe for trial although it was known that the citizens had organized a mob to lynch him. The Judge was offered troops by the Governor to protect the prisoner but refused. Allen was sent to Monroe in charge of two officers. The train was stopped and he was taken off and shot. The mob then pro- ceeded to Monroe where they stormed the jail, took out Watts and hanged and shot him. The same Judge had refused to ask for troops on a previous occasion, saying that he “would not imperil the life of one man to save the lives of a hundred Negroes.”
No indictments were found against the lynchers.
The Crisis, August, 1911.
PENNSYLVANIA, 1911
For shooting and killing a constable in a fight, the details of which were not known, Zach Walker, a Negro of Coatesville, Pennsylvania, was taken from the hospital, where he lay wounded as a result of the fight, dragged through the streets on the cot to which he was chained and burned alive.
The bedstead was broken in half, and the man, still chained to the lower half, was dragged half a mile along the ground, thrown upon a pile of wood, drenched with oil and burned alive.
Other human beings, to the number of several hundred, looked on in approval. When Walker, with superhuman strength, burst his bonds and tried to escape, they drove him back with pitchforks and fence rails and held him there until his body was burnt to ashes. Those who could get frag- ments of his charred bones, took them off as souvenirs.
Albert Jay Nock in the American Magazine, February, 1913.
All attempts to indict members of the mob failed. They were given an ovation by their fellow-citizens when they returned from the Grand Jury.
GEORGIA, 1911
T. W. Walker, a colored man of Washington, Ga., killed C. S. Hollinshead, a wealthy planter of the same place. It was stated that there was no apparent cause for the crime, but a Northern colored paper published the charge that Walker killed Hollinshead for attacking his wife and an Atlanta paper re-
20 Thirty Years of Lynching in the United States
printed it. A crowd of white men tried to lynch Walker, who had been sen- tenced to death, but were so drunk that he succeeded in escaping. He was caught and resentenced to instant execution. Before he could be taken from the court room, a brother of Hollinshead shot and severely wounded him. He was then taken out and hanged, the court announcing that the brother would not be prosecuted. The only arrest made in connection with the affair was that of the Negro editor who published the charge against Hollinshead.
The Crisis, January, 1912.
TENNESSEE, 1911
Ben Pettigrew, a successful Negro farmer, and his two daughters, were on their way to Savannah, Tenn., taking a load of seed cotton to a cotton gin there. They were ambushed by four white men who shot the father, hanged the daughters and then drove the load of cotton under the tree from which their bodies dangled and set fire to it.
The case is remarkable, because two of the murderers, friendless, ignorant white boys, were ultimately hanged for their part in it.
The Crisis, January, 1912.
LOUISIANA, 1912
At Yellowpine, La., Ernest Allums, a colored boy of nineteen, was whipped for insulting women. The accounts vary as to the manner in which they were insulted, one report saying that he wrote “suggestive letters” and an- other that the insults were sent over the telephone. He was ordered to leave town but refused and was lynched.
The Crisis, June, 1912.
WEST VIRGINIA, 1912
In Bluefield, W. Va., September 4, 1912, Robert Johnson was lynched for attempted rape. When he was accused he gave an alibi and proved every statement that he made. He was taken before the girl who had been attacked and she failed to identify him. She had previously described very minutely the clothes her assailant wore. When she failed to identify Johnson in the clothes he had, the Bluefield police dressed him to fit the description and again took him before her. This time she screamed on seeing him, “That’s the man.” Her father had also failed to identify him but now he declared himself positive that he recognized Johnson as the guilty man. Thereupon Johnson was dragged out by a mob, protesting his innocence, and after being severely abused, was hung to a telegraph pole. Later his innocence was conclusively established.
“The Lynching of Robert Johnson," James Oppenheim in The Independent, October 10, 1912.
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GEORGIA, 1912
Anne Bostwick, a Negro servant woman subject to violent fits of insanity, who stabbed her mistress to death in one of them, was lynched at Pine- hurst, Ga., June 24th. According to the Coroner’s jury “she came to her death at the hands of parties unknown.” A special correspondent to the Cincinnati Inquirer, however, writes:
“Great crowds attended and saw the shot-riddled body of the Negress cut from the tree. Sheriff Bennett has made no arrests and none are expected. The truth is that there is general rejoicing over the lynching of the Negress and the lynchers are known to everybody. The Negress was lynched from an auto. The machine in which she was sitting was driven under a tree, a rope placed about her neck and the other end tied to a limb of the tree. The machine was started at high speed and the Negress left hanging. Her body was then shot to pieces. Her eyes were shot out and such a fusillade directed at her waist that she was cut in two.”
The same paper says of the verdict:
“The verdict was rendered in the face of the fact that the automobiles in which the lynching party pursued the slayer and the sheriff are known to be owned by some of the most prominent citizens of Cordele, Vienna and Pinehurst.”
The Macon Telegraph said as to the woman’s sanity:
"While living here (Fort Valley) the lynched Negress was tried by a jury and found a fit subject for the lunatic asylum but owing to the crowded condition of that institution she could not be received. In her rational mo- ments she was a good reliable servant, but became violent at times.”
The Crisis, August, 1912.
GEORGIA, 1912
At Jackson, Georgia, Henry Etheridge was lynched April 26 for being active in securing recruits for a colony to Africa. Race prejudice is also given as the cause.
The Crisis, June, 1912.
Chicago Tribune, December 31, 1912.
TEXAS, 1912
Dan Davis, a Negro, was burned at the stake at Tyler, Texas, for the crime of attempted rape, May 25, 1912.
There was some disappointment in the crowd and criticism of those who had bossed the arrangements, because the fire was so slow in reaching the Negro. It was really only ten minutes after the fire was started that smoking shoe soles and twitching of the Negro’s feet indicated that his lower extremi- ties were burning, but the time seemed much longer. The spectators had waited so long to see him tortured that they begrudged the ten minutes be- fore his suffering really began.
The Negro had uttered but few words. When he was led^to where he was to be burned he said quite calmly, “I wish some of you gentlemen would be
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Christian enough to cut my throat,” but nobody responded. When the fire started, he screamed “Lord, have mercy on my soul,” and that was the last word he spoke, though he was conscious for fully twenty minutes after that. His exhibition of nerve aroused the admiration even of his torturers.
A slight hitch in the proceedings occurred when the Negro was about half burned. His clothing had been stripped off and burned to ashes by the flames and his black body hung nude in the gray dawn light. The flesh had been burned from his legs as high as the knees when it was seen that the wood supply was running short. None of the men or boys were willing to miss an incident of the torture. All feared something of more than usual interest might happen, and it would be embarrassing to admit later on not having seen it on account of being absent after more wood.
Something had to be done, however, and a few men from the edge of the crowd, ran after more dry-goods boxes, and by reason of this “public sendee” gained standing room in the inner circle after having delivered the fuel. Meanwhile the crowd jeered the dying man and uttered shocking comments suggestive of a cannibalistic spirit. Some danced and sang to testify to their enjoyment of the occasion.
Special correspondence of the St. Louis Post-Despatch.
The Crisis, June, September, 1912.
MISSISSIPPI, 1914
Sam Petty, a Negro, accused of having killed a deputy sheriff, Chas. W. (Kirkland), was lynched at Leland, Miss.
Petty, wanted on a trivial charge, killed Kirkland with a shot-gun when the officer entered a cabin late today, in which the Negro had taken refuge. Petty was captured by a posse, bound and placed in an oil-soaked, dry-goods box and the match applied. A moment later, the man, his clothing aflame, broke from his fastenings and started to run, but before he could gain head- way, was shot dead.
The body was put in the box, fresh inflammables were piled about it and within half an hour it was burnt to ashes.
Associated Press Despatch, February 24, 1914.
LOUISIANA, 1914
K. McKnight, T. Lewis and M. Sudcn were lynched without trial because they were accused of murdering a postmaster. One of them, an old man, bore an excellent reputation in the neighborhood. There was no evidence against him and even under duress he refused to confess to the crime. He was burnt at the stake in the presence of a large crowd, which included a local theatrical troupe.
The Crisis, January, February, 1915.
The conviction is irresistible that the old man who was burned to death had nothing whatever to do with the crime. If he had been guilty, the tor-
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23
ture to which he was subjected would have forced a confession and the won- der is that he did not confess, anyhow, in the agony of his roasting flesh, as many innocent victims have done in the vain hope of escaping torture. In all probability the guilty murderers of the village postmaster are at large, while the blood of innocents rests upon the hands of those who took it upon themselves to discharge the functions of the law.
Editorial, Houston, Texas, Post.
OKLAHOMA, 1914
Marie Scott of Wagoner County, a seventccn-year-old Negro girl, was. lynched by a mob of white men because her brother killed one of two white men who had assaulted her. She was alone in the house when the men en- tered, but her screams brought her brother to the rescue. In the fight that ensued one of the white men was killed. The next day the mob came to lynch her brother, but as he had escaped, lynched the girl instead. No one has ever been indicted for this crime.
The Crisis, June, 1914.
GEORGIA, 1915 The Aftermath
A Georgia sheriff was murdered something over a year ago. Naturally, there was intense excitement (in Worth County) where the crime was com- mitted and of the six Negroes who were arrested, five were promptly hanged by a mob. The sixth one, Jim Keith, chanced to be rescued from the lynchers, much to their indignation. He was put on trial and convited of complicity in the murder, but not of actual participation in it, and he was sentenced to imprisonment for life. Recently some new facts came to light and in the second trial that was accorded to Keith, because of their importance, not only was he cleared by the jury of having any hand at all in the killing, but it was also proved that the five Negroes who were lynched were equally guiltless.
From an editorial in the New York Times, February 12, 1917.
NORTH CAROLINA, 1916
Joseph Black was hanged at Kingston, N. C., because his son was accused of attacking a white child. He was arrested and taken out of the reach of mob violence by the officer, so the mob lynched the father instead.
The Crisis, May, 1916.
TEXAS, 1916
Jesse Washington, a defective Negro boy, of about nineteen, unable to read and write, was employed as farm hand in Robinson, a small town near Waco, Texas. One day, the wife of his employer found fault with him,
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whereupon he struck her on the head with a hammer and killed her. There is some, but not conclusive, evidence that he raped her. He was arrested, tried, found guilty and sentenced to death by hanging within ten days of the commission of the crime. As the sentence was pronounced, a mob of fifteen hundred white men, who feared the law’s delays, broke into the court- room and seized the prisoner. He was dragged through the streets, stabbed, mutilated and finally burned to death in the presence of a crowd of 15,000 men, women and children. The Mayor and Chief of Police of Waco also witnessed the lynching.
After death what was left of his body was dragged through the streets and parts of it sold as souvenirs. His teeth brought $5 apiece and the chain that had bound him 25 cents a link. No one was ever indicted for participat- ing in the lynching.
Investigation by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
FLORIDA, 1916
Boisy Long, a Negro farmer of Newberry, Fla., was accused by some white farmers of hog stealing. The sheriff came to arrest Long at two o’clock in the morning. With him was another white man, who was supposed to be the owner of the hogs in question, and to have sworn out the warrant. What occurred in the house is not known, but both the white men were shot, the sheriff dying of the wound.
Long escaped, so that when the Newberry people came to get him they took his wife, Stella Long, and a friend of hers, Mrs. Dennis, on the ground that they refused to give information. It is said that they were tortured to get the information.
The citizens of Newberry and Gainesville continued to look for Long. They did not find him but they met James Dennis, and shot him. James Dennis’s brother went into Newberry to buy a coffin and they threw him in jail. Then they met Josh Baskin, a neighbor of the Longs and Dennises, and a preacher. They hanged him. Then they went to the jail, brought out the three Negroes already in jail and hanged them. Mary Dennis was the mother of two children and was pregnant. Stella Long had four children.
Boisy Long has been captured and indicted for shooting the sheriff and the other white man. None of the lynchers has been indicted.
Investigation by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
SOUTH CAROLINA, 1916
Anthony Crawford, a wealthy Negro farmer of Abbeville, S. C., came into town to sell a load of cotton and cotton seed. He got into a dispute with a white storekeeper over the price of the cotton seed and cursed him. He was arrested for disorderly conduct and released on $15 bail. A mob, enraged
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at this miscarriage of justice, pursued him into a cotton gin and in self-defense, he struck the leader with a hammer, crushing his skull but not fatally injur- ing him. The mob then dragged him out, beat, kicked, stabbed and par- tially blinded him. He was rescued with some difficulty by the sheriff and removed to the county jail. The same afternoon the mob broke into the jail, dragged him out through the streets to the fair grounds, hung him to a tree and riddled his body with bullets. Not one of the lynchers was ever indicted.
Roy Nash, Independent, Dec. 11, 1916, Investigation by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
TENNESSEE, 1917
On April 30, Antoinette Rappal, a sixteen-year-old white girl, living on the outskirts of Memphis, disappeared on her way to school. On May third her body was found in a river, her head severed from it. On May 6 a Negro woodchopper, Ell Person, was arrested on suspicion. Under third degree methods he confessed to the crime of murder. The Grand Jury of Shelby County immediately indicted him for murder in the first degree.
The prisoner was taken secretly to the State penitentiary at Nashville. It was known that he would be brought back for trial to Memphis. Each incoming train was searched, and arrangements were made for a lynching.
On May 15 the sheriff disappeared from Memphis. He returned on May 18, announcing that he was informed that several mobs were between Arling- ton and Memphis. The men were reported to be drinking. “I didn’t want to hurt anybody and I didn’t want to get hurt,” he said, “so I went South into Mississippi.”
The press did nothing to quell the mob spirit, and on May 21 announced that Ell Person would be brought to Memphis that night. Thousands of persons on foot and in automobiles went to the place that had been prepared for the lynching.
With a knowledge of these conditions, Person was brought back from Nashville, guarded only by two deputies. Without difficulty he was taken from the train, placed in an automobile, and driven to the spot prepared for his death.
The Memphis Press reported the lynching in full. We give a few of its statements.
“Fifteen thousand of them — men, women, even little children, and in their midst the black-clothed figure of Antoinette Rappal’s mother — cheered as they poured the gasoline on the axe fiend and struck the match:
“They fought and screamed and crowded to get a glimpse of him, and the mob closed in and struggled about the fire as the flames flared high and the smoke rolled about their heads. Two of them hacked off his ears as he burned ; another tried to cut off a toe but they stopped him.
“The Negro lay in the flames, his hands crossed on his chest. If he spoke no one ever heard him over the shouts of the crowd. He died quickly, though fifteen minutes later excitable persons still shouted that he lived when they saw the charred remains move as does meat on a hot frying pan.
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“ ‘They burned him too quick! They burned him too quick!” was the complaint on all sides.”
Investigation of the burning of Ell Person at Memphis, by James Weldon Johnson. Published by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
TENNESSEE, 1918
Jim Mcllherron, was prosperous in a small way. He was a Negro who resented the slights and insults of white men. He went armed and the sheriff feared him. On February 8 he got into a quarrel with three young white men who insulted him. Threats were made and Mcllherron fired six shots, killing two of the men.
He fled to the home of a colored clergyman who aided him to escape, and was afterwards shot and killed by a mob. Mcllherron was captured and full arrangements made for a lynching. Men, women and children started into the town of Estill Springs from a radius of fifty miles. A spot was chosen for the burning. Mcllherron was chained to a hickory tree while the mob howled about him. A fire was built a few feet away and the torture began. Bars of iron were heated and the mob amused itself by putting them close to the victim, at first without touching him. One bar he grasped and as it was jerked from his grasp all the inside of his hand came with it. Then the real torturing began, lasting for twenty minutes.
During that time, while his flesh was slowly roasting, the Negro never lost his nerve. He cursed those who tortured him and almost to the last breath derided the attempts of the mob to break his spirit.
Walter F. White, in The Crisis, May, 1918.
GEORGIA, 1918
Hampton Smith, a white farmer, had the reputation of ill treating his Negro employees. Among those whom he abused was Sidney Johnson, a Negro peon, whose fine of thirty dollars he had paid when he was up before the court for gaming. After having been beaten and abused, the Negro shot and killed Smith as he sat in his window at home. He also shot and wounded Smith’s wife.
For this murder a mob of white men of Georgia for a week, May 17 to 24, engaged in a hunt for the guilty man, and in the meantime lynched the fol- lowing innocent persons: Will Head, Will Thompson, Hayes Turner, Mary Turner, his wife, for loudly proclaiming her husband’s innocence, Chime Riley and four unidentified Negroes. Mary Turner was pregnant and was hung by her feet. Gasoline was thrown on her clothing and it was set on fire. Her body was cut open and her infant fell to the ground with a little cry, to be crushed to death by the heel of one of the white men present. The mother’s body was then riddled with bullets. The murderer, Sidney Johnson, was at length located in a house at Valdosta.
CORRECTION.
We are advised by competent medical authority, since the publication of this report and before it was entirely distributed, that the statement concerning Alma Howze in the conclud- ing paragraph of the account of her lynching describes a highly improbable occurrence, and that the movement spoken of was probably due to a purely mechanical process within the body and not to the movement of the unborn infant
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The house was surrounded by a posse headed by the Chief of Police and Johnson, who was known to be armed, fired until his shot gave out, wound- ing the Chief. The house was entered and Johnson found dead. His body was mutilated. After the lynching more than 500 Negroes left the vicinity of Valdosta, leaving hundreds of acres of untillcd land behind them.
The Lynchings of May, iqi8, in Brooks and Lowndes Counties, Georgia, by Walter F. White. Published by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
MISSISSIPPI, 1918
On Friday night, December 20, 1918, four Negroes, Andrew Clark, age 15; Major Clark, age 20; Maggie Howze, age 20; and Alma Howze, age 16, were taken from the little jail at Shubuta and lynched on a bridge over the Chick- asawha River. They were suspected of having murdered a Dr. E. L. John- ston, a dentist.
An investigation disclosed the following facts: That Dr. Johnston was living in illicit relations with Maggie Howze and Alma Howze. That Major Clark, a youth working on Johnston’s plantation wished to marry Maggie. That Dr. Johnston went to Clark and told him to leave his woman alone. That this led to a quarrel, made the more bitter when it was found that Maggie was to have a child by Dr. Johnston; and that the younger sister was also pregnant, said to be by Dr. Johnston.
Shortly after this Johnston was mysteriously murdered. There were two theories as to his death; one that he was killed by Clark, the other that he was killed by a white man who had accused him of seducing a white woman. It was generally admitted that Johnston was a loose character.
Alma Howze was so near to motherhood when lynched that it was said by an eye-witness at her burial on the second day following, that the movements of her unborn child could be detected.
Investigation by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
NORTH CAROLINA, 1918 Mob Leaders Go To Prison
Realizing that if a lyncher is permitted to remain unpunished the decency of the community is greatly endangered, Judge B. F. Long of the Superior Court sentenced fifteen white men, indicted for participation in a riot in Winston-Salem, Nov. 17, to serve from fourteen months to six years in prison. The men were found guilty of attempting to lynch Russell High, a prisoner in the city jail.
The fifteen men were a part of a mob that for a night and morning ter- rorized Winston-Salem, and in their efforts to lynch a black man, innocent of the crime of assault for which he had been arrested on suspicion, put life and property in peril and incidentally killed four people, one a little white
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girl. The Mayor of the city acted with promptitude and courage, calling out the Home Guards and the fire department which played water on the mob. Nearly every policeman was hurt. The Governor rushed troops from Camp Green at Charlotte. For many days cannon guarded the streets. “We don’t mean to be sentimental on this matter,” a prominent business man is quoted as saying, “but we aren’t going to have our city’s good name spoilt by a lynching.”
Condensed from reports of the North Carolina press.
APPENDIX I
Analyses of Number of Persons Lynched
TABLE NO. 1
NUMBER OF WHITE AND COLORED PERSONS LYNCHED IN UNITED STATES, 1889-1918*
|
Years |
Total |
White |
Colored |
|
18S9 |
175 |
80 |
95 |
|
1S90 |
91 |
3 |
88 |
|
1S91 |
194 |
67 |
127 |
|
1892 |
226 |
71 |
155 |
|
1893 |
153 |
39 |
114 |
|
1S94 |
182 |
54 |
128 |
|
1895 |
178 |
68 |
110 |
|
1S96 |
125 |
46 |
79 |
|
1897 |
162 |
38 |
124 |
|
1898 |
127 |
24 |
103 |
|
1899 |
109 |
22 |
87 |
|
1900 |
101 |
12 |
89 |
|
1901 |
135 |
27 |
108 |
|
1902 |
94 |
10 |
84 |
|
1903 |
104 |
17 |
87 |
|
1904 |
86 |
7 |
79 |
|
1905 |
65 |
5 |
60 |
|
1906 |
68 |
4 |
64 |
|
1907 |
62 |
3 |
59 |
|
1908 |
100 |
8 |
92 |
|
1909 |
89 |
14 |
75 |
|
1910 |
90 |
10 |
80 |
|
1911 |
71 |
8 |
63 |
|
1912 |
64 |
3 |
61 |
|
1913 |
48 |
1 |
47 |
|
1914 |
54 |
5 |
49 |
|
1915 |
96 |
43 |
53 |
|
1916 |
58 |
7 |
51 |
|
1917 |
50 |
2 |
48 |
|
1918 |
67 |
4 |
63 |
|
3,224 |
702 |
2,522 |
♦Victims of the Atlanta, Ga. (1906), and East St. Louis, 111. (1917), riots have been excluded from this and subsequent tables.
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TABLE No. 3
NUMBER OF PERSONS LYNCHED, BY GEOGRAPHICAL DIVISIONS AND STATES AND BY COLOR, 1889-1918*
|
Section and Division |
Total No. |
White |
Per Cent. |
Negro |
Per Cent. |
|
UNITED STATES |
3,224 |
702 |
21.8 |
2,522 |
78.2 |
|
THE NORTH |
219 |
118 |
54.4 |
101 |
45.6 |
|
New England |
1 |
1 |
100.0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Maine |
1 |
1 |
100.0 |
0 |
0 |
|
New Hampshire |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Vermont |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Massachusetts |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Rhode Island |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Connecticut |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Middle Atlantic |
8 |
4 |
50.0 |
4 |
50.0 |
|
New York |
3 |
2 |
66.6 |
1 |
33.4 |
|
New Jersey |
1 |
1 |
100.0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Pennsylvania |
4 |
1 |
25.0 |
3 |
75.0 |
|
East North Central |
63 |
33 |
53.1 |
30 |
46.9 |
|
Ohio |
12 |
4 |
33.4 |
8 |
66.6 |
|
Indiana |
19 |
10 |
“ 55.0 |
9 |
45.0 |
|
Illinois |
24 |
12 |
50.0 |
12 |
50.0 |
|
Michigan |
4 |
3 |
75.0 |
1 |
25.0 |
|
Wisconsin |
4 |
4 |
100.0 |
0 |
0 |
|
West North Central |
147 |
80 |
54.7 |
67 |
45.3 |
|
Minnesota |
4 |
4 |
100.0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Iowa |
8 |
5 |
62.5 |
3 |
37.5 |
|
Missouri |
81 |
30 |
37.0 |
51 |
63.0 |
|
North Dakota |
2 |
2 |
100.0 |
0 |
0 |
|
South Dakota |
13 |
13 |
100.0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Nebraska |
17 |
15 |
90.0 |
2 |
10.0 |
|
Kansas |
22 |
11 |
50.0 |
11 |
50.0 |
|
THE SOUTH |
2,834 |
425 |
15.0 |
2,409 |
85.0 |
|
South Atlantic |
862 |
78 |
9.1 |
784 |
90.9 |
|
Delaware |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
100.0 |
|
Maryland |
17 |
2 |
11.7 |
15 |
88.3 |
* Of the total number of lynchings for the thirty years’ period, 6.9 per cent occurred in the Northern States, 87.8 per cent in the Southern States and 4.8 per cent in the Western States, while 15 lynchings are recorded in Alaska and “places unknown”, 4 of these latter having occurred in Alaska. Individual States having a percentage of the total number of lynchings in excess of 5 per cent are: Georgia, 12.1 per cent; Mississippi, 11.6 per cent; Texas, 10.5 per cent; Louisiana, 9.6 per cent; Alabama, 8.9 per cent; Arkansas, 6.9 per cent; Tennessee, 5.9 per cent; Florida, 5.5 per cent; Kentucky, 5.2 per cent.
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TABLE No. 3 — Continued
|
Section and Division |
Total No. |
White |
Per Cent. |
Negro |
Per Cent. |
|
South Atlantic — Cont. Virginia |
78 |
11 |
15.1 |
67 |
84.9 |
|
West Virginia |
29 |
7 |
24.0 |
22 |
76.0 |
|
North Carolina |
53 |
12 |
22.6 |
41 |
77.4 |
|
South Carolina |
120 |
3 |
2.5 |
117 |
97.5 |
|
Georgia |
386 |
26 |
6.7 |
360 |
93.3 |
|
Florida |
178 |
17 |
9.6 |
161 |
90.4 |
|
District of Columbia |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
East South Central |
1,014 |
134 |
13.3 |
880 |
86.7 |
|
Kentucky |
169 |
45 |
26.7 |
124 |
73.3 |
|
Tennessee |
196 |
34 |
17.7 |
162 |
82.3 |
|
Alabama |
276 |
32 |
11.6 |
244 |
88.4 |
|
Mississippi |
373 |
23 |
6.1 |
350 |
93.9 |
|
West South Central |
958 |
213 |
21.7 |
745 |
78.3 |
|
Arkansas |
214 |
32 |
15.1 |
182 |
84.9 |
|
Louisiana |
313 |
49 |
15.8 |
264 |
84.3 |
|
Oklahoma |
96 |
60 |
62.8 |
36 |
37.2 |
|
Texas |
335 |
72 |
21.9 |
263 |
78.1 |
|
THE WEST |
156 |
144 |
92.3 |
12 |
7.7 |
|
Mountain |
110 |
101 |
91.8 |
9 |
8.2 |
|
Montana |
22 |
22 |
100.0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Idaho |
11 |
11 |
100.0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Wyoming |
34 |
29 |
85.3 |
5 |
14.7 |
|
Colorado |
18 |
16 |
88.8 |
2 |
12.2 |
|
New Mexico |
13 |
11 |
84.6 |
2 |
15.4 |
|
Arizona |
8 |
8 |
100.0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Utah |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Nevada |
4 |
4 |
100.0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Pacific |
46 |
43 |
93.5 |
3 |
6.5 |
|
Washington |
16 |
16 |
100.0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Oregon |
4 |
3 |
75.0 |
1 |
25.0 |
|
California |
26 |
24 |
92.3 |
2 |
7.7 |
|
ALASKA and UNKNOWN |
15 |
15 |
100.0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Alaska |
4 |
4 |
100.0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Places Unknown |
11 |
11 |
100.0 |
0 |
0 |
Analyses of Number of Persons Lynched
33
TABLE NO. 4
WOMEN AND GIRLS LYNCHED, BY STATES, 1889-1918*
|
Total |
White |
Colored |
|
|
UNITED STATES |
61 |
11 |
50 |
|
Alabama |
7 |
||
|
Arkansas |
5 |
||
|
Florida |
2 |
||
|
Georgia |
5 |
||
|
Kentucky |
1 |
3 |
|
|
Louisiana |
1 |
4 |
|
|
Mississippi |
1 |
11 |
|
|
Nebraska |
1 |
||
|
North Carolina |
1 |
||
|
Oklahoma |
2 |
||
|
South Carolina |
4 |
||
|
Tennessee |
2 |
1 |
|
|
Texas |
3 |
6 |
|
|
Virginia |
1 |
* The percentage of women lynched to the total number, is 1.5.
34 Thirty Years of Lynching in the United States
TABLE No. 5
NUMBER OF PERSONS LYNCHED, BY STATES AND BY FIVE YEAR PERIODS, 1889-1918
|
Section and Division |
Total |
1889- 1893 |
1894- 1898 |
1899- 1903 |
1904- 1908 |
1909- 1913 |
1914- 1918 |
|
UNITED STATES |
3,224 |
839 |
774 |
543 |
381 |
362 |
325 |
|
THE NORTH |
219 |
66 |
73 |
44 |
9 |
15 |
12 |
|
New England |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
|
Maine |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
|
New Hampshire... |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Vermont |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Massachusetts |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Rhode Island |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Connecticut |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Middle Atlantic |
8 |
2 |
2 |
2 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
|
New York |
3 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
|
New Jersey |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Pennsylvania |
4 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
|
East North Central.. |
63 |
20 |
20 |
12 |
3 |
5 |
3 |
|
Ohio |
12 |
4 |
5 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
0 |
|
Indiana |
19 |
7 |
7 |
5 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Illinois |
24 |
4 |
7 |
5 |
2 |
3 |
3 |
|
Michigan |
4 |
3 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Wisconsin |
4 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
West North Central. |
147 |
44 |
51 |
30 |
5 |
9 |
8 |
|
Minnesota |
4 |
2 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Iowa |
8 |
3 |
3 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
|
Missouri |
81 |
18 |
26 |
20 |
4 |
6 |
7 |
|
North Dakota |
2 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
|
South Dakota |
13 |
4 |
8 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Nebraska |
17 |
9 |
7 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
|
Kansas |
22 |
8 |
5 |
8 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
|
THE SOUTH |
2,834 |
690 |
661 |
474 |
362 |
343 |
304 |
|
South Atlantic |
862 |
180 |
182 |
164 |
103 |
132 |
101 |
|
Delaware |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Maryland |
17 |
3 |
7 |
1 |
4 |
2 |
0 |
|
Virginia |
78 |
35 |
16 |
14 |
6 |
3 |
4 |
|
West Virginia |
29 |
11 |
4 |
9 |
0 |
4 |
1 |
Analyses of Number of Persons Lynched 35
TABLE No. 5 — Continued
|
Section and Division |
Total |
1889- 1893 |
1894- 1898 |
1899- 1903 |
1904- 1908 |
1909- 1913 |
1914- 1918 |
|
South Alantic — Cont. |
|||||||
|
North Carolina |
53 |
16 |
8 |
10 |
8 |
3 |
8 |
|
South Carolina |
120 |
28 |
36 |
19 |
15 |
14 |
8 |
|
Georgia |
386 |
61 |
69 |
73 |
55 |
67 |
61 |
|
Florida |
178 |
26 |
42 |
37 |
15 |
39 |
19 |
|
District of Columbia . |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
East South Central.. |
1,014 |
276 |
247 |
173 |
142 |
94 |
82 |
|
Kentucky |
169 |
41 |
52 |
20 |
19 |
13 |
24 |
|
Tennessee |
196 |
60 |
55 |
32 |
18 |
20 |
11 |
|
Alabama |
276 |
84 |
79 |
36 |
29 |
29 |
19 |
|
Mississippi |
373 |
91 |
61 |
85 |
76 |
32 |
28 |
|
West South Central. |
958 |
234 |
232 |
138 |
116 |
117 |
121 |
|
Arkansas |
214 |
64 |
47 |
34 |
32 |
21 |
16 |
|
Louisiana |
313 |
83 |
73 |
61 |
32 |
31 |
33 |
|
Oklahoma |
96 |
16 |
40 |
4 |
5 |
19 |
12 |
|
Texas |
335 |
71 |
72 |
39 |
47 |
46 |
60 |
|
THE WEST |
156 |
76 |
34 |
24 |
9 |
4 |
9 |
|
Mountain |
110 |
58 |
19 |
16 |
6 |
4 |
7 |
|
Montana |
22 |
12 |
1 |
6 |
0 |
2 |
1 |
|
Idaho |
11 |
9 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
|
Wyoming |
34 |
24 |
2 |
4 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
|
Colorado |
18 |
1 |
12 |
4 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
|
New Mexico |
13 |
9 |
1 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
1 |
|
Arizona |
-. |
3 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
|
Utah |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Nevada |
4 |
0 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
|
Pacific |
46 |
18 |
15 |
8 |
3 |
0 |
2 |
|
Washington |
16 |
8 |
7 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Oregon |
4 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
|
California |
26 |
9 |
7 |
6 |
3 |
0 |
1 |
|
ALASKA and |
|||||||
|
UNKNOWN |
15 |
7 |
6 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
|
Alaska |
4 |
0 |
4 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Places Unknown .... |
11 |
7 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
36 Thirty Years of Lynching in the United States
TABLE NO. 6
NUMBER OF PERSONS LYNCHED, BY OFFENSES CHARGED AND BY COLOR, 1889-1918*
|
Mur- der |
Rape |
Attacks upon Women * |
Other Crimes Against the Person |
Crimes Against Prop- erty |
Miscel- laneous Crimes |
Absence of Crime t |
Total |
|
|
Total |
1,219 |
523 |
250 |
315 |
331 |
438 |
148 |
3,224 |
|
White Per cent, of total whites |
319 |
46 |
13 |
62 |
121 |
135 |
6 |
702 |
|
lynched. . . . |
45.7 |
6.6 |
1.8 |
8.7 |
17.4 |
18.1 |
1.4 |
100.0 |
|
Negro Per cent, of total Negroes |
900 |
477 |
237 |
253 |
210 |
303 |
142 |
2,522 |
|
lynched .... |
35.8 |
19.0 |
9.4 |
9.5 |
8.3 |
12.0 |
5.6 |
100.0 |
* This classification includes all cases in which press accounts state that attacks upon women were made, but in which it was not clear whether rape was alleged to have been consummated or attempted.
t Under this heading arc listed such causes as “testifying against whites,” “suing whites,” “wrong man lynched,” “race prejudice,” “defending himself against attack,” etc.
Analyses of Number of Persons Lynched
37
TABLE NO. 7
NUMBER OF PERSONS LYNCHED, BY OFFENSES CHARGED AND BY FIVE YEARS’ PERIODS, 1889-1918
|
18S9- 1893 |
1S94- 1898 |
1S99- 1903 |
1904- 190S |
1909- 1913 |
1914- 1918 |
Total |
||
|
( Total |
288 |
286 |
198 |
145 |
180 |
122 |
1,219 |
|
|
Murder |
• White. . . |
104 |
93 |
55 |
14 |
16 |
37 |
319 |
|
k Negro. . . |
184 |
193 |
143 |
131 |
164 |
85 |
900 |
|
|
( Total |
167 |
128 |
75 |
69 |
55 |
29 |
523 |
|
|
Rape |
► White. . . |
16 |
15 |
6 |
4 |
4 |
1 |
46 |
|
Negro. . . |
151 |
113 |
69 |
65 |
51 |
2S |
477 |
|
|
Attacks Upon |
Total |
37 |
57 |
61 |
33 |
39 |
23 |
250 |
|
Women |
- White. . . |
4 |
3 |
2 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
13 |
|
Negro. . . |
33 |
54 |
59 |
31 |
38 |
22 |
237 |
|
|
Other Crimes |
Total |
43 |
56 |
78 |
56 |
23 |
59 |
315 |
|
Against the |
White. . . |
16 |
27 |
7 |
2 |
6 |
4 |
62 |
|
Person |
Negro. . . |
27 |
29 |
71 |
54 |
17 |
55 |
253 |
|
Crimes |
Total |
108 |
123 |
46 |
19 |
16 |
19 |
331 |
|
Against |
White. . . |
66 |
34 |
10 |
1 |
2 |
8 |
121 |
|
Property |
Negro. . . |
42 |
89 |
36 |
18 |
14 |
11 |
210 |
|
Miscellaneous |
Total |
162 |
84 |
50 |
36 |
40 |
66 |
438 |
|
Crimes |
White. . . |
51 |
57 |
6 |
4 |
7 |
10 |
135 |
|
Negro. . . |
111 |
27 |
44 |
32 |
33 |
56 |
303 |
|
|
Absence |
Total |
34 |
40 |
35 |
23 |
9 |
7 |
148 |
|
of |
White. . . |
3 |
1 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
6 |
|
Crime* |
Negro. . . |
31 |
39 |
33 |
23 |
9 |
7 |
142 |
* See foot-note, Table No. 6.
38
Thirty Years of Lynching in the United States
TABLE No. 8
PERCENTAGE OF DECREASE DURING EACH FIVE YEARS’ PERIOD, 1889-1918.
1889-1893=100 PER CENT.
|
Years |
Total Number |
Per Cent. Decrease |
WHITE |
NEGRO |
||
|
Total Number |
Per Cent. Decrease |
Total Number |
Per Cent. Decrease |
|||
|
1889-1893 |
839 |
0 |
260 |
0 |
579 |
0 |
|
1894-1898 |
774 |
7.8 |
230 |
14.1 |
544 |
4.7 |
|
1899-1903 |
543 |
35.2 |
88 |
67.1 |
455 |
20.3 |
|
1904-1908 |
381 |
54.6 |
27 |
89.5 |
354 |
38.0 |
|
1909-1913 |
362 |
57.2 |
36 |
85.8 |
326 |
43.6 |
|
1914-1918 |
325 |
61.3 |
61 |
77.6 |
264 |
54.4 |
39
Analyses of Number of Persons Lynched
PKRSONS
LYNCHED.
1889-1918
Negro
2,522
PERSONS LYNCHED. 1889 1918
BY GEOGRAPHICAL DIVISION
The
South
2.834
PERSONS LYNCHED BY FIVE-YEAR PERIODS
1889 1894 1899
1893 1898 1903
l~) B~1 Jbi
579 260 544 230 455 88
1904-
1908
354 27
1909-
1913
326 36
□ ■
White Negro
1914
1918
264 61
ALLEGED CAUSES (NEGRO VICTIMS)
40 Thirty Years of Lynching in the United States
foot-note *, Table No. 6, Ap-
Analyses of Number of Persons Lynched
PERSONS LYNCHED, 1889-1918 BY STATES.*
41
So
/So 2 oo
Georgia. . . Mississippi. . Texas. Louisiana . . . Alabama. .
2So S/to 3 So o
386 (26)- 373 (23)- 335 (72)- 313 (49)- 276 (32)-
Arkansas 214 (32)
Tennessee. 196 (34)
Florida 178 (17)
Kentucky. 169 (45) So. Carolina. . 120 (3)
Oklahoma 96 (60)
Missouri 81 (30)
Virginia 78 (11)
No. Carolina 53 (12) Wyoming ... 34 (29) West Virginia 29 (7) California. ... 26 (24).
Illinois 24 (12)
Kansas 22 (11)-
Montana 22 (22)
Indiana 19 (10).
Colorado 18 (16)-
Maryland 17 (2)-
Nebraska. . . . Washington . .
New Mexico.
South Dakota
Ohio
Idaho
Places Un- known 11 (11)
17(15) 16 (16). 13 (11). 13 (13)- 12 (4)- 11 (11)-
|
Arizona |
8 |
(8)- |
|
Iowa |
8 |
(5) — |
|
Alaska |
4 |
(4X- |
|
Michigan .... |
4 |
(3)- |
|
Minnesota. . . |
4 |
(4)- |
|
Nevada |
4 |
(4)- |
|
Oregon |
4 |
(3)- |
|
Pennsylvania. |
4 |
(1) — |
|
Wisconsin |
4 |
(4)^- |
|
New York. . . |
3 |
(2)- |
|
No. Dakota. . |
2 |
(2)- |
|
Delaware. . . . |
1 |
|
|
Maine |
1 |
(U- |
|
New Jersey. . |
1 |
(D- |
‘Numbers not in parentheses are totals (both races). Numbers in parentheses are white persons.
APPENDIX II
Chronological List of Persons Lynched in United States, 1889 to 1918, inclusive, arranged by States*
Negroes are listed in bold faced type.
Whites are listed in light faced type.
ALABAMA
Jan. 15. May 22. Sept. 2.
■ 27.
Oct. 4. Dee. 27.
Mar. 22.
“ 31.
Apr. 2. July 13.
* 25.
Aug. 12.
Apr. 2.
■ 15.
* 25.
July 6.
* 6. “ 26.
Aug. 1. “ 1.
■ 1. “ 1. * 21.
Sept. 3.
“ 29.
Oct. 1.
■ 15. Dec. 22.
* 26. “ 26. * 27.
■ 27.
Jan. 18.. Feb. 13..
‘ 14...
Mar. 10. Apr. 1.
“ 19..
* 19..
* 19
“ 19
May 8.. “ 16.. “ 16.
“ 16... June 23...
1889
MEADOWS, GEORGE Pratt Mines, Jefferson Co._ Rape
DICKSON, NOAH Walnut Grove, Etowah Co._ Rape
..TWO UNKNOWN NEGROES (2)Montevallo, Shelby Co Murder
. STEELE, JOHN— Birmingham, Jefferson Co Murder
..STARK Locality undetermined -Supposed murder
..WILSON, BUD._ Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa Co. Attempted rape
1890
..MOSELEY, ROBERT Huntsville, Madison Co Rape
..GRIFFIN. FRANK.... Stanton, Chilton Co Rape
|
JONES, JOHN . |
||
|
UNKNOWN NEGRO COOK, ISAAC |
...Riverton, Colbert Co.._ Miscegenation ...Montcomerv. Monteomerv Co... Deanerado |
|
|
1891 |
||
|
GROHAN, ZACHIOLI |
||
|
ELLIOTT, ROXIE (woman) RANDALL |
...Centerville, Bibb Co. ...Winfield, Marion Co |
|
|
BROWN, ROBERT |
..Locality undetermined. |
murder |
|
BROWN CALVIN |
...Locality undetermined— |
|
|
UNDERWOOD, JESSE |
...Tuscumbia, Colbert Co |
|
|
WILLIAMS, ELLA |
||
|
..WILLIAMS, WILLIAM |
...Henry Co |
|
|
LOWE, WILLIS |
||
|
LOWE. ELIZA |
||
|
PORTER, RAY.. |
||
|
SIMS, JAMES |
...Choctaw Co._ |
|
|
TWO UNKNOWN NEGROES. |
||
|
BROWN, JOHN.. |
.Testifying against whites |
|
|
WRIGHT, SAM |
...Helena, Shelby Co |
|
|
MILLER, JESSE |
||
|
SIMS, ROBER T. |
||
|
FO UR SAVAGE BROTHERS. |
||
|
..SIMS, JOHN. __ |
Choctaw Co |
Outlaw |
|
SIMS, MOSEL Y |
||
|
1892 |
||
|
HINTON, HENRY |
||
|
TWO NEGROES |
||
|
WEBB, WILEY . |
||
|
UNKNOWN NEGRO. .. |
||
|
MULLENS, JOHN |
||
|
WILLIAMS, JERRY |
||
|
DAVIS, GEORGE. |
||
|
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM. |
||
|
ROBERTS, ALBERT _ |
||
|
HOES, GEORGE |
...Butler, Choctaw Co |
|
|
ROWDER, BERRY.. |
...Childersburg, Talladega Co... |
Robbery |
|
ROWDER, JAMES . ... |
Childersburg, Talladega Co._ |
|
|
CANTOR WILLIAM |
||
|
..C H A M B L E RSU CHRIS TOP HER |
...Red Creek Bay, Locality Un- |
|
|
determined- |
...Attempted murder |
*On page 104, for convenience, we print separately the list of persons lynched for 1918, as the list for the preceding years had been set up before the 1918 list had been authen- ticated.
44 Thirty Years of Lynching in the United States
ALABAMA — Continued
July 5 UNKNOWN NEGRO Jasper, Walker Co Attempted rape
|
Oct. 13 JONES, BURRELL |
Murder |
|
|
“ 13 JONES, MOSES. |
Monroeville, Monroe Co. |
Murder |
|
13 TWO NEGROES.. |
Monroeville, Monroe Co |
Murder |
|
* 30 ...PARKER, ALLEN. Dec. 30 HOPP, JAMES |
New Monroesville, Monroe Co. Greenville, Butler Co |
Incendiarism Murder |
|
“ SO KF.T.T.Y, C H ART.ES. |
Greenville, Butler Co. |
|
|
1893 |
||
|
Jan. 19 WILLIAMS, JAMES |
Rape |
|
|
Eufala, Barbour Co |
Murder |
|
|
June 24 JED WARDS, DAN |
Selma, Dallas Co |
Rape |
|
“ 27 MURPHY, ERNEST |
Rape |
|
|
July 17 UNKNOWN NEGRO |
Murder |
|
|
Aug. 13 . CHAMBERS, KURT |
..Coffeyvillp, Clarke Co |
Desperado |
|
* 13 JAMES, T,EE. |
||
|
Sept. 6 UNKNOWN NEGRO |
Rape |
|
|
* 15 HULL, PAUL |
Arson |
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“ 15. ARCHER PAUL.- |
Carrolton, Pickens Co._ |
Arson |
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“ 15 FAIR, EMMA |
Arson |
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Dec. 8... MINTY, BENJAMIN.. |
Berlin, Dallas Co. |
....Alleged murder |
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“ 8.. GIOHEN, JOSEPH |
....Alleged murder |
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“ 8 WILKINS, ROBERT |
.. ..Alleged murder |
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“ 10. TWO NEGROES |
~ ..Murder |
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“ 12 FOUR NEGROES |
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“ 28....SEGARS, MACK. _ _ |
Unknown offense |
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Stanton, Chilton Co |
Murder |
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“ 17 ....GEORGE, W. |
Murder |
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“ 17 . J5EDDO N, A |
Murder |
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Mar. 29... JACKSON, OLIVER |
Murder |
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Apr. 2.. ..ENGLISH, HOLLAND.. |
Murder |
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* 5. TWO NEGROES |
. ..Alleged murder |
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“ 22... BLACK, THOMAS |
Barn burning |
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“ 22 WILLIAMS, JOHN |
Tuscumbia, Colbert Co |
Barn burning |
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“ 22... JOHNSON, TONY |
Barn burning |
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July 19. BROWNLEE, JOHN |
Political cause |
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Nov. 14. ...MOSELEY, ROBERT. |
Rape |
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Dec. 11....BRO NSO N, GEORGE |
Clarke Co. |
Murder |
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* 11 ....SMITH, CHARLES |
Murder |
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« U....BROWN, LEE. |
Murder |
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Mar. 19.. .DAWSON, DANIEL |
Alleged arson |
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* 19 HOLMAN, ROBERT |
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“ 19....HOLMAN; JOSEPH |
Alleged arson |
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Apr. 15 DUNEGAN, MANUEL ... |
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Apr. 21 COLLEY, ZEB |
evidence . ..Alleged murder |
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“ 21 RATTLER, JOHN |
... Alleged murder |
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“ 21. DEANE, MARY |
...Alleged murder |
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“ 21. ...GREEN, MARTHA |
Greenville, Butler Co.- |
....Alleged murder |
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“ 21... GREEN, ALICE |
... Alleged murder |
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May 5 H AMES, ANDY |
Murder |
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Rape |
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“ 31. FREEMAN,' JAMES |
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June 5.. POWELL, JAMES .. |
..Attempted rape .Protecting negro |
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“ 13. ALEXANDER, J. M |
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Oct. 5 McGRADY, TOBE “ 22. ...HENDERSON, JOHN |
Vinegar Bend, Washington Co.... |
Rape ....Attempted rape |
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Feb. 10 ... LEEDS, JAMES |
Seddon. Saint Clair Co -Attempted assault |
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* 17 WILSON, ROBERT |
Murder |
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Apr. 12. ADAMS. REDDRICK |
Seale. Russell Co |
Murder |
May 9....WI LLI AMS, EDEN Manitua, Green Co Incest
June 20....ORR, LEON Locality undetermined Rape
“ 21 WESTMORELAND, WILLIAM Montgomery, Montgomery Co.._ Murder
Aug. 1 MORELEY, ISADORE Near Selma, Dallas Co Attempted murder
“ 1 HUNTER, WILLIAM Near Selma, Dallas Co Attempted murder
Sept. 27....PITCH, JOHN Locality undetermined Attempted rape
Chronological List of Persons Lynched
45
ALABAMA — Continued
Oet. 10 ANDERSON, JAMES
Oct. 10 . CYAT, HENRY
“ 12. UNKNOWN NEGRO
* 14. UNKNOWN NEGRO
“ 21 . ..HOLLI NSHEAD
Dec. 7. . WARDLEY, WILLIAM ... “ 22....JAMES, JOSEPH
Jan. 31 .. JACKSON, JAMES.
Mar. 18 BEARD, ANDY
“ 20 SMITH, JOHN
“ 26 ..MARRITT. JOHN
May 12 WHITE, MOLLY
“ 12 FRANKS, AMANDA
“ 13 NANCE, JAMES
June 1 HAYDEN, JOHN
July 9 . THOMAS, JAMES
July 16. ..TERRILL
“ 20. DANIEL, JAMES
“ 21 SPEAKS, JAMES
Aug. 30... PHARR, JACK
Sept. 2 UNKNOWN NEGRO Nov. 29 ABRAMS, HENRY.
Dec. 16... BONNER, LOUIS
* 16.. ..BONNER, JOHN
“ 17. ...BEARD, BUD
Feb. 20....KELLOG, JOHN
Mar. 21.. ..CALLOWAY, JOHN
June 17... JACKSON, SOLOMON _.
“ 17.. ..SPIER, LOUIS.
‘ 17. ...THOMPSON, JESSE.
“ 17.. ..REESE, CAMP
* 17. ..JACKSON, WILLIAM
July 12 JOHNSON, SIDNEY Sept. 13 [.. ANDERSON, ALBERT ......
Oct. 2. ..ANDERSON, JOHN
Oct. 23 UNKNOWN NEGRO
Jan. 5... McGREGOR, MARSAL
June 7 ....HILL, WILLIAM
Aug. 17....HUNT, CHARLES
“ 21 ...LONIN, PETER.....
“ 21....SO A' OF PETER LONIN.
Nov. 2....SLOSS, ALBERT...
...Taylor Ferry, Houston or
Madison . Alleged murder
Locality undetermined- Alleged murder
. . Locality undetermined Murder
..Toad vine Murder
..Washington Co Turning State’s
evidence
..Irondalc, Jefferson Co Passing counterfeit
money
...Woodstock, Bibb Co Rape
1897
.Bibb Co
Kennedy, Lamar Co
.Scottsboro, Jackson Co
.Pickens Co
Jefferson, Marengo Co
Jefferson, Marengo Co
Jefferson, Marengo Co
.Lamar Co
.Blossburg, Jefferson Co.
.Elba, Coffee Co
.Goose Co
.Riverton, Colbert Co
.Claiborne, Monroe Co
Excel, Monroe Co
.Near Montgomery, Mont-
mery Co
Kennedy, Lamar Co
.Kennedy, Lamar Co
.Carrolton, Pickens Co
Murder
Elopement with
white girl
Rape
Assault
Murder
Murder
Murder
Mistaken for
another
Refusing to give
evidence
Murder
Attempted rape
Rape
Robbery
.Murderous assault
Murder
For giving evidence, by white caps For giving evidence, by w hite caps Rape
1898
.Blanche, Cherokee Co Attempted rape
.Calhoun Co Paying attention
to W'hite girl
.Wetumpka, Elmore Co Murder
.Wetumpka, Elmore Co Murder
.Wetumpka, Elmore Co Murder
.Wetumpka, Elmore Co Murder
Wetumpka, Elmore Co Murder
.Coaling, Tuscaloosa Co Rape
Locality undetermined Murder
.Lafayette, Chambers Co Murder
.Lafayette, Chambers Co Murder
1899
.Banks, Pike Co Suspected arson
..Bibb Co Accomplice in
murder
.Brantley, Crenshaw Attempted rape
.Electric, Elmore Co. Murder
.Electric, Elmore Co Murder
.Near Courtland, Lawrence Co Attempted rape
1900
Mar. 18. ..HUMPHRIES, CHARLES Lee County— Attempted rape
May 7.. ..UNKNOWN NEGRO Geneva, Geneva Co Rape
Oct. 2....TOWNSEND, WINFIELD Eclectic, Elmore Co._ Attempted rape
“ 30. ABERNATHY Duke, Calhoun Co .Assault
1901
Jan. 3....McADAMS, LOUIS WilsonviUe, Shelby Co Murderous assault
Mar. 6.. ..DAVIS, BUD Moulton, Lawrence Co Unknown offense
May 6.. ..MAYES, ED Selma, Dallas Co Sheltering a
murderer
“ 6 . ..MAYES, “DIC”- Selma, Dallas Co Sheltering a
murderer
“ 6... DAWSON, ROBERT .. .Selma, Dallas Co._ Sheltering a
murderer
46 Thirty Years of Lynching in the United States
ALABAMA — Continued
May 11.... WILLIAMS, WILLIAM... South Side Theft
“ 11....UNKNOWN NEGRO Leeds, Jefferson Co Mistaken identity
“ 30.... REEVES, FRANK Butler Co Attempted rape
June 16.. ..HARRIS, GEORGE... Limestone Co Arson
July 15. ...HERMAN, ALEXANDER Courtland, Lawrence Co Murder
Aug. 2.. ..BENTLEY, CHARLES Leeds, Jefferson Co Murder
Aug. 7.. ..PENNINGTON, JOHN Enterprise, Coffee Co Rape
Sept. 3....FOURNAY, WILLIAM.. Chestnut, Monroe Co Rape
Dec. 6....THREE UNKNOWN NEGROES.Opp. Covington Co Race prejudice
1902
Mar. 24....ZIEGLER, WM. Locality undetermined Criminal assault
Apr. 6... REYNOLDS, WILLIAM Tuscumbia, Colbert Co Murder
June 25....CAMPBELL, WILLY Locality undetermined Attempted murder
Nov. 3... HARRIS, SAMUEL Salem, Lee Co Murder
Dec. 20... .BISHOP, SCOTT Marbury, Autauga Co Murder
1903
June 24....DIGGS, ANDREW Scottsboro, Jackson Co Attempted rape
Nov. 15....YOUNG, CHARLES Locality undetermined Attempted rape
“ 30... DAVIS, PHILLIP Locality undetermined Murder
“ 30....CARTER, WALTER Locality undetermined Murder
“ 30....THOMAS, CLINTON. Locality undetermined Murder
1904
Apr. 16.... SIMS, RUBEN.. Little River, Baldwin Co... Murder
May 1. .HALL, CAINES Kingston, Coffee Co Rape
June 22....POPE, EPHREIM..— Lamison, Wilcox Co Rape
July I.... JONES, JON.._ Altoona, Etowah Co., Ala Rape
Aug. 7. ...BELL, ED Near Selma, Dallas Co Murder
Sept. 7....MAPLES, HORACE Huntsville, Madison Co Murder
1905
Mar. 14 PLOWLY, EDW. Pine Apple, Wilcox Co—
“ 14....PLOWLY, WM Pine Apple, Wilcox Co
Aug. 23...XATT, OLIVER Tunnel Springs, Monroe Co
..Murder
.Murder
..Murder
1906
Feb. 11. ...RICHARDSON, BUNKIE Gadsden, Etowah Co Rape and murder
“ 20....PEDIGRIE, Andalusia, Covington Co— Rape
Apr. 29.. ..BROWN, WM Rienzi Murder
Oct. 6.. ..ROBINSON, RICHARD- Prichard Sta., Mobile Co— Rape
“ 6 . ..PETERS, HENRY Prichard, Mobile Co Rape
“ 20....DOVE, DANIEL Locality undetermined Attempted rapo
1907
Jan. 4....UNKNOWN- Midway, Bullock Co Attempted rape
Mar. 24. ...HARDING, CLEVELAND Florence, Laudordale Co Attempted rape
“ 26....UNKNOWN. Hartford, Geneva Co Rape
Apr. 29....CALHOUN, EBEN Pittsview, Russell Co Murderous assault
Aug. 27....LIPSEY, JNO Pickensville, Pickens Co Rapo
Sept. 3.... JOHNSON, JERRY N. Birmingham, Jefferson Co Rape
“ 22....DOSSETT, MOSES Prichard Sta., Mobile Co Attempted rapo
Nov. 2....SUMROLL, ABRAM Vinegar Bend, Washington Co Murder
“ 2....LUCAS, HENRY Vinegar Bend, Washmging-
ton, Co Complicity in murder
“ 3....QUIGLETON, FRED Talledaga, Talledaga Co Murder
“ 30....SAUNDERS, NEWT Opp. Covington Co Rape
1908
Apr. 6....CLAYTON, WALTER. Bay Minett, Baldwin Co Rapo
Aug. 6... .MILLER, WM Brighton, Jefferson Co Dynamiting
Oct. 21....STOVER, Halselle, Choctaw Co Attempted rape
1909
Jan. 22 ...ROBERTSON, DOUGLASS... Mobile, Mobile Co Murder
“ 24. ...DAVENPORT Leighton, Collier Co— Barn burning
Feb. 1... UNNAMED NEGRO Boh var, locality undetermined Attempted rape
..Near Birmingham, Jefferson Co Rapo
..Jackson, Clurke Co— Murder
Apr 25. ...THOMAS,
Sept. 4 BALAAM, JOSHUA
4 . BALAAM, LEWIS Jackson, Clarke Co— Murder
Nov. 24....ROLSTON, RAY Anniston, Calhoun Co Murderous assault
Dec. 20 . MONTGOMERY, CLINTON Mnguolia, Marengo Co Murder
Chronological List of Persons Lynched
47
ALABAMA — Continued
Muy 26. MATSON, JESSE
July 3. McKENNY, HENRY Aug. 1 WALLACE, WILLIAM
Oct. 4. WITHERS, BUSH—
Oct. 8 . NEGRO
“ 9. RICHARDSON, GRANT
* 9— DELL, JOHN
Feb. 12 PETERSON, IVER
Apr. 2. UNNAMED NEGRO
Aug. 30. UNNAMED NEGRO
Sept. 20....MOLPASS, CHAS
Jan. 2S....C HANDLER, JOHN.
Feb. 19... UNNAMED
Aug. 5.. ..VERGE, SAM
“ 28... UNNAMED
Nov. 2— SMITH, WM
• 18....BERNEY, ...
Dec. 7....CTJRTIS, Azariah...
“ 20... UNNAMED
Jan. 3....CARSON
Aug. 28... .UNKNOWN NEGRO.
Mar. 29._.YOUNG, CHARLES Dec. 19....JONES, WILLIAM..
Jan. 4....SMITH, EDWIN
“ 4... .SMITH, WILLIAM
“ 18....DEELEY, HERMAN.
Aug. 10 ...FOX, JAMES
“ 17 JACKSON, “KID”
“ 17....RUSSELL, HENRY
“ 17....UNNAMED NEGRO
Jan. 28. ..BURTON, RICHARD. July 1....WEEKS, LEMUEL ....
Jan. 10— UNNAMED NEGRO
July 16. ...UNIDENTIFIED NEGRO
“ 23 . ..HIBBLER, POE
" 23 POWELL, WILLIAM
" 23. ..POWELL, JESSE
1910
.Calora, Shelby Co.._ Murder
.Dothan, Houston Co Attempted rape
Axis, Mobile Co Rape
.Sanford, Covington Co.._ Rape
McFall, Calhoun Co Rape
.Centerville, Bibb Co Rape
..Montgomery, Montgomery Co — Murder
1911
.Eufaula, Barbour Co Attempted rape
..Union Springs, Bullock Co Rape
..Clayton, Barbour Co.._ Murder
..Locality undetermined Murder
1912
Bessemer, Jefferson Co Murder
..Dothan, Houston Co Murder
..Locality undetermined Murder
..Near Gadsen, Etowah Co Murder
..Bessemer, Jefferson Co Murder
..Wetumpka, Elmore Co Murder
..Butler, Choctaw Co Murder
..Cuba, Sumter Co Murder
1913
..Selma, Dallas Co Unnamed offense
..Kilgore Unnamed cause
1914
..Clayton, Barbour Co— Murder
..Fort Deposit, Lowndes Co Murder
1915
..Wetumpka, Elmore Co Murder
..Wetumpka, Elmore Co Murder
..Taylorsville, Bartow Co Murder
..Locality undetermined Murder
..Hope Hull, Montgomery Co Poisoning mules
..Hope Hull, Montgomery Co Poisoning mules
..Hope Hull, Montgomery Co Poisoning mules
1916
..Boyds, Sumter Co Burglary
-Pickensville, Pickens Co Murder
1917
..Greeley, Tuscaloosa Co Rape
...Reform, Pickens Co Burglary
...Pickens Co Attempted rape
.. Letohatchee, Lowndes Co Threat to kill
... Letohatchee, Lowndes Co Threat to kill
ALASKA
1897
Aug. 21— V N K NOW N J/.4 N Skaguay Larceny
Sept. 11— .MARTI N, WILLI AM G. Lake Bennett Larceny
“ 18. .. UNKNOWN MAN Skaguay Larceny
Feb.
2 ....TANNER, M. F.
1898
Murder
ARIZONA
1892
June 22.... TWO HORSE THIEVES Calabasas, locality undeter- mined
Oct. 18— AN INDIAN -Ash Fork, Yavapai Co Rape
48 Thirty Years of Lynching in the United States
ARIZONA — Continued
1897
Oct. 28.... MADERA, JUAN Morenci, Greenlee Co...
1901
July 27 ....RIVERA, IGNACIO Hent’s Ranch
1915
April 20.... LEO N, J JJ A N Lonely Gulch.
“ 20. ... LEO N, JOSE M Lonely Gulch.
1917
May 6 ....DALEY, STAR Florence, Pinal County.
Murder
Horse thief
Alleged bandit Alleged bandit
Murder
ARKANSAS
1889
Jan. 15. REYNOLDS, DEAN Locality undetermined
Mar. 8.. ..ROBINSON, J. E. Texarkana, Miller Co
May 19. ...NEELY, A. M — Forest City, St. Francis Co..
Juno 13 JOHNSON, ARMSTEAD Pine Bluff, Jefferson Co
Dec. 16....F0 UR 0 UTLAWS Maumelle, Pulaski Co
1890
Jan. 1... .UNKNOWN.. Turner P. O., Phillips Co
Feb. 14... LARKIN, WILLIAM Camden, Ouachita Co
May 30.. ..WEAVER, ROBERT Locality undetermined
1891
June 25....JONES, HENRY Hamburg, Ashley Co
July 7 . ..BAILEY, JAMES Beebe, White Co
“ 17. ...ROSSIM US, FRANK Arkansas City, Desha Co
“ 18. ...RICE, FRA N K Arkansas City, Desha Co
“ 19 ...DARMER, JOHN .... Arkansas City, Desha Co
Aug. 30 . ..MULLIGAN, CHARLES Conway, Faulkner Co
Oct. 1... .PATTERSON, BEN Hackette, Sebastine..
“ 1 ...PEYTON, EDWARD Near Marianna, Lee Co
Nov. 8.. ..RICE, WILLIAM Locality undetermined
“ 20. HADLEY, NAT ... Gurdon, Clark Co
Dec. 14. ...UNKNOWN MAN Newton Co
“ 21. ...SMI T H, J. A Dewitt, Arkansas Co
“ 21.... GREGOR Y, FLO YD Dewitt, Arkansas Co
“ 21.. ..HENDERSON, MOSES Dewitt, Arkansas Co
1892
Jan. 1 S....JO H NSO N Northern Arkansas
“ 18.. ..BA KER, MRS Northern Arkansas
Feb. 9 BEAVERS, HENRY Wilmar, Ashley Co
“ 10... BRISCO & SON, HAMP Locality undetermined
“ 10... BRISCO, MRS Locality undetermined....
“ 14. ...KELLY, JOHN Pine Bluff, Jefferson Co
“ 14. HARRIS, GULBERT Pine Bluff, Jefferson Co
“ 20....COY, ED Texarkana, Miller Co
“ 23. ...HARRIS, GEORGE Varner, Lincoln Co
April 1....ST U ART, C H AS... Locality undetermined...
May 13. HENRY, JAMES Little Hock, Pulaski Co
“ 21. STEWART, CHARLES Morrillton, Conway Co.
“ 31 ... THREE MEN NAMED MC-
ART II UR Pcrryville, Perry Co
June 22....C ARSON, HE NR Y Moark, Clay Co
July 2....A NEGRO Wynne, Cross Co
“ 2... DONNELLY, ROBERT Union Township, Fulton Co.
“ 14. MOSELEY, JULIAN Arkansas City, Desha Co
“ 30 . ..BAKER, EUGENE Monticello, Drew Co...
Aug. 4 CARTER, ALLEN Wynne, Cross Co
“ 10 . JORDON, ROBERT Camden, Ouaohita Co
* 23 BOWLES Gurdon, Clark Co.
Sept. 20 HARRISON Chnmpngnollc, Union Co.
Dec. 7....LIGHTFOOT Near Newport, Jackson Co..
Jilting a girl
Rape
.Political troubles Theft
Accessory to
murder
Murder
Race prejudice
Murder
Rape
.Attempted murder Attempted murder
Murder
Murder
Strike rioting
Strike rioting
Unknown cause
Murder
Cause unknown
Murder
Murder
Rape
... Suspected murder Suspected murder Assaulting a woman
Race prejudice
Race prejudice
Murder
Accessory to
murder
Rape
Murder
Attempted rape
Rape
Murder
Advising murder
Murder
Rape
Rape
Rape
Self-defense
Rapo
Insulting a woman
.Rape
Race prejudice
Fraud
Chronological List of Persons Lynched
4!)
ARKAN SAS — Continued
1893
Jan. 6 ..SCROGGS, PAUL Brinkley, Monroe Co
“ 6. ALLEN, HENRY Brinkley, Monroe Co
April 19.... THORNTON, FLANNEGAN Morrillton, Conway Co.
May 9 ...CRAM, A. li Bearden, Ouachita Co...
“ 9,...“DOCM HENDERSON . Bearden, Ouachita Co.
* 9.. ..STEWART, JOHN Bearden, Ouachita Co...
“ 31. WALLACE, JOHN Jefferson Springs
Nov. 14. NELSON ..Varner, Lincoln Co.._
Deo. 7 GREENWOOD, ROBERT
Nov. 29.. ..JONES, NEWTON Boxley, Newton Co
Murder
Murder
Murder
Murder
Murder
Murder
Rape
Murder
Race prejudice Murder
1894
Jan. 5... DAVIS, ALFRED _ Lonoke Co
Stealing
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“ 9 ... PL V N KETT, CHAS. A ROUT. |
....Gulch Co.. |
... Murder |
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Mar. 6 UNKNOWN WOMAN |
... Near Marche, Pulaski Co... |
..Unknown offense |
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May 23 BROOKS, WILLIAM |
... Palestine, Saint FrancisCo.... |
.Asking white woman |
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June 22 CAPUS, HENRY |
in marriage Rape |
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Sept. 22. WASHINGTON, LUKE |
Murder |
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“ 22 WASHINGTON |
Murder |
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“ 22....CROBYSON, HENRY |
Murder |
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June 20 KING, FRANK |
1895 ... Little Rock. Pulaski Co.._ |
Murder |
July 14.... TWO NEGROES Hampton, Calhoun Co Alleged murder
Aug. 22....JONES, JAMES Locality undetermined Murder
Sept. 5....FREEMA N, AARON Near Hot Springs, Garland
Co Rape
“ 11... CALDWELL, WILLIAM Near Osceola, Mississippi Co Murder
“ 11. ...THOMAS, JOHN Near Osceola, Mississippi Co Murder
“ 19. ...UNKNOWN NEGRO Locality undetermined Rape
Nov. 4. ...ENGLAND, ALBERT Wynne, Cross Co Burglary
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July 31. GOULD, GIDFREY |
Rape |
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Dec. 9. ...CRAZY JIM |
Murder |
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“ 17... .UNKNOWN NEGRO |
Near Pine Bluff, Jefferson Co |
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1897 |
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May 20.. OATES, PRESLEY |
Theft |
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Aug. 24 . ..WYATT, WILLIAM |
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“ 26.. . WILLIAMS, EDWARD |
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Sept. 5 . UNKNOWN NEGRO “ 16. ...WATSON, D. L. |
.. ..Robroy, Jefferson Co.. |
....Unknown offense |
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Oct. 15. PARKER, THOMAS |
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Dec. 8....M URRA F _ |
..Arresting a miner |
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1898 |
Jan. 1_. “ 8.. “ 8.. “ 8.. Mar. 15.. April 3.. June 3.. July 1.. “ 14..
“ 14..
Aug. 9.. “ 9..
“ 9..
“ 9..
Dec. 6..
UNKNOWN NEGRO Sherrill, Jefferson Co Theft
DAVAL Near Reader, Ouachita Co Murder
HUNTLEY Near Reader, Ouachita Co Murder
TWO NEGROES— Near Reader, Ouachita Co Murder
UNKNOWN Marcella, Stone Co Robbery
.MERCER, WM— Locality undetermined Murder
HAYDEN, LEVI Texarkana, Miller Co Assault
GRAY, GOODE Rison, Cleveland Co Murder
RIED, JAMES Monticello, Drew Co Murder
JOHNSON, ALEXANDER Monticello, Drew Co. Murder
MANSE, CASTLE Clarendon, Monroe Co Murder
RICORD, DENNIS Clarendon, Monroe Co Murder
SAUNDERS, WILLIAM .._ Clarendon, Monroe Co Murder
WEAVER, RILLA Clarendon, Monroe Co Murder
.GAINES, NEWTON Locality undetermined Rape
50 Thirty Years of Lynching in the United States
ARKAN SAS — Continued
Mar. 23... “ 23...
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“ 23..
“ 23..
“ 23..
April 18.'. May 1... July 24..
June 12.
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1899 Little River Co |
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KING, JOSEPH |
Little River Co |
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Little River Co |
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Clinton, Van Buren Co |
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1900 |
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West Point, White County... |
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Earle, Crittenden County. _ |
Murder |
June 19....WOODW ARD, WILLIAM. .. Searcy Co Murder
Dec. 21....UNKNOWN NEGRO Arkadelphia, Clark County Rape
1901
Feb. 20....BERRYMAN, PETER Mena, Polk Co Assaulting a white
person
Mar. 23 ...ST U N L Y, GEORGE Pccohantos, Randolph County Murder
April G....HEARN, MAY— Osceola, Mississippi County Murder
May 13 . ..KEY, LEE Knoxville, Johnson Co Race prejudice
Aug. I....SE IG LE R. Rosston, Nevada Co Murder
1902
Mar. 10... McCOY, HORACE Foreman, Little River Co Criminal assault
Aug. 1.. . NEWTON, LEE Locality undetermined Attempted rape
Sept. 3... WILSON, HOG Stephens, Ouachita Co ..Rape
Oct. 20... YOUNG, CHARLES Forrest City, Saint Francis.. ..Rape and murder
Nov. 20....WELLS, ELIJAH.__ Wynne, Cross Co Murderous assault
1903
Mar. 20.. ..ROBERTSON, FRANK Bradley, Lafayette Co .Arson
April 6....TURNER, JOHN..._ Warren, Bradley Co Attempted rape
“ 23 . THOMPSON, ALEXANDER Gurdon, Clark Co Murderous assault
July 22 ...GILBERT, JOHN Locality undetermined Murder
“ 22 . ..UNKNOWN Locality undetermined Murder
Sept HELLEM Luxora, Mississippi Co Assaulted colored
girls
Oct. 6. ...McCOLLUM, EDWARD Sheridan, Grant Co Murderous assault
Nov. 3. .. JOHNSON, BENRY Lake Village. Chicot Co Murder
“ 8 ....CADLE, Z. C Brinkley, Monroe Co — Murder
1904
Feb. 19....DAYS, GLENCO Crossett, Ashley Co Murder
Mar. 26 . ..SMITH, JAS St. Charles, Arkansas Co Race prejudice
“ 20.. ..SMITH, CHARLES St. Charles, Arkansas Co Race prejudice
“ 26... BALDWIN, MACK St. Charles, Arkansas Co Race prejudice
“ 26.. ..BAILEY, ABE.. St. Charles, Arkansas Co Race prejudice
“ 20. ...FLOOD, GARRETT st. Charles, Arkansas Co Raoe prejudice
“ 26.... JOHNSTON, KILLIS.. ..St. Charles, Arkansas Co Race prejudice
“ 26....CARTER, PERRY St. Charles, Arkansas Co Race prejudice
“ 26 . ..GRIFFIN, HENRY St. Charles, Arkansas Co Race prejudice
“ 20 ...GRIFFIN, WALTER St. Charles, Arkansas Co Race prejudice
“ 26. ...FLOOD, RANDALL.. St. Charles, Arkansas Co Race prejudice
“ 26.. ..BALDWIN, WM. St. Charles, Arkansas Co Race prejudice
“ 26 . ..MADISON, WM St. Charles, Arkansas Co Race prejudice
* 26.. ..HINTON, AARON St. Charles, Arkansas Co Race prejudice
Aug. 31. ...TWO UNKNOWN ... Stephens, Ouachita Co Insulting white
women
Sept. 6... UNKNOWN.. Crossett, Ashley Co Assaulting whites
Jan. 1 ....ALLWHITE, WUIS.
“ 4. ...JETTON, WHITE
April 20 BARRETT, JOHN July 0 WOODMAN, JAS.
Sept. 22 . ..BROWN, FRANK
1905
Newport, Jackson Co Murder
Spring Hill, Murder
Askew, Leo Co Murder
Locality undetermined Eloping with
white girl
.Conway, Faulkner Co Mistaken identity
Chronological List of Persons Lynched
51
ARKANSAS — Continued
1906
Feb. 7....CALTON, JAMES Elmarth, locality undeter- mined Murderous assault
July 8 ANDERSON, WM. Pillar, locality undetermined Rape
■ 12... UNKNOWN Near Junction City, Union Co Attempted rape
Oot. 7.. ..BLACKBURN, H Argenta, Pulaski .. Murderous assault
“ 8... DAVIS, ANTHONY.... Texarkana, Miller Co.. Attempted rape
Nov. 29....UNKNOWN NEGRO Hot Springs, Garland Co Attempted rape
1907
Dec.
July.. 5
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TWO COLORED WOMEN ... MUSSAY, WASHINGTON WILLIAMS, ERNEST |
Stamps, Lafayette Co... .... Augusta, Woodruff Co. _ .. 1908 |
Murderous assault Murder |
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language |
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1909 |
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HILLIARD |
. ..Hope, Hempstead Co |
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AIKENS, ALBERT |
Rape |
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BLAKELY, JOS |
Portland, Ashley Co |
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BAILY, GEO .... |
Devill’s Bluff, Prairie Co.. |
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1910 |
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...AUSTIN, ROBERT |
....Marion, Crittendon Co.. |
... Murder |
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RICHARDS, CHARLES |
....Marion, Crittendon Co |
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. JONES “JUDGE”. |
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PRIDE, FRANK |
...Murder |
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MITCHELL, LAURA. |
Murder |
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McLANE, “DOCK” |
.....Ashdown, Little River Co... |
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...HUNTER, WILLIAM |
Star City, Lincoln Co |
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women |
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. POWELL, SAM |
..Robbery and arson |
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...CHITWOOD, OSCAR |
Murder |
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1911 |
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DEAN, ARTHUR. |
Rape |
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LUCEY, NATHAN . |
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. LEWIS, CHARLES |
Insulting women |
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1912 |
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LEWIS, SANFORD |
Murder |
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WILLIAMS, JNO. |
Murder |
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. FRANKLIN, MONROE |
....Russellville, Pope Co |
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1913 |
June 19....NORMAN, WILLIAM Near Hot Springs Garland Co Rape
Sept. 5....SIMMS, LEE Little Rock, Pulaski Co Rape
Oct. 28....DAVIS, HOWARD..
1914
..Newport, Jackson Co..
..Murder
1915
June 15....HALEY, LOY Hope, Hempstead Co Murder
Sept. 12. ...BOWERS, JACOB Carlisle, Lonoko Co ..Murder
Dec. 3. .. PATRICK, WILLIAM Forrest, St. Francis Co Murder
52 Thirty Years of Lynching in the United States
ARKANSAS — Continued 1916
Jan. 22.... UNNAMED HIGHWA Y-
M A N Vandervoort, Polk D
May 27....GILMAN, FELIX Prescott, Nevada Co Murder
Aug. 9... .UNNAMED NEGRO Stuttgart, Arkansas Co Rape
Oct. 9.. ..DODD, FRANK Dewitt, Arkansas Co Attempted rape
Feb. 8 .SMITH, JAMES
July 31. ...AVERY, ANDREW Aug. 9....JIMERSON, AARON
Sept. 13....GATES, SAMUEL
Oct. 8 . ..UNNAMED NEGRO
1917
.Proctor, Crittenden Co Murder
.Garland City, Miller Co ...Robbery
..Ashdown, Little River Co.._.Murderous
assault
England, Lonoke Co Insulting girls
Robbery
CALIFORNIA
1889
Mar. 18....SPRAG UE, B. S Garvanza, Los Angeles Co Murder
1891
Feb. 22....RE1LL Y, OLIVER Salado Independence Co
June 15. .. AH ANONG TI (CHINESE) Bridgeport, Mono Co.. ...
Aug. 25....LEE OMAN, (CHINESE) Locality undetermined...
1892
Redding, Frankiln Co Murder and
robbery
Redding, Franklin Co Murder and
robbery
..Locality undetermined Murder
.San Jose, Santa Clara Co Unknown offense
1893
Apr. 7....FULZEN, JESUS (MEXICAN)..San Bernardino, San Bern- ardino Co Murder
1895
July 27 .. .ADAMS, VICTOR O’Neals Madera Co._...
Aug. 26 IO H NSO N, LAW RE NCE Yreka, Siskiyou Co
“ 26....NULL, WILLIAM. Yreka, Siskiyou Co
“ 26... .MORE NO, LOUIS Yreka, Siskiyou Co
“ 26 ....SEEMLER, HARLAND... Yreka, Siskiyou Co
Sept. 27....ARCHOR, WM. (INDIAN) Bakersfield, Kern Co. ..
Oct. 1....LITTLEFIELD, JOHN Round Valley, Inyo Co
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May 31. HALE, FRANK |
1901 |
Theft |
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“ 31 ....HALE, JAMES |
Theft |
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“ 31 ... HALE, MARTIN |
Theft |
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“ 31 HALE , CALVIN |
..Theft |
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“ 31... T ANTIS, B. D |
Lookout, Modoc Co |
Theft |
July 10....FOOK, TUNG (CHINESE)
Murder
Murder
Murder
Murder
Murder
.Murder
Murder
July 24 ...RUGGLES, JOHN
“ 24 ...RUGGLES, CHARLES.
Sept. 20. ...SMITH, J. W
Nov. 11 PLANZ, HENRY
.Murder Murder Rape
Mar. 12... UNKNOWN Apr. W. ...PETRIE
1904
.Majane, locality undetermined .Unknown offense .Dunsmuir, Siskiyou Co. Rape
1908
Apr. 23....SIM PSO N, JOS Sikdoo, locality undetermined Murder
COLORADO
July 2(\....ARAT A, NICOLAI
1893
.Denver, Denver Co.
Murder
Chronological List of Persons Lynched
53
COLORADO — Continued 1894
June 2 ...McCURDY, ALEX Golden, Jefferson Co.. Murder
1895
Jan. 9....W I T H E R ELL, GEORGE Canon City, Fremont Co
Mar. 12.... A PO LETT I , ANTONIO Walsenburg, Huerfano Co...
“ V2....GI ACO NI NO, PIETRO Walsenburg, Huerfano Co..
“ 12 ...LORENZO, ANTINIO Walsenburg, Huerfano Co..
“ 12. ...ROCHETTI, FRANCISCO Walsenburg, Huerfano Co. .
“ 12 ..V ETTA RI, STANISLAUS Walsenburg, Huerfano Co.. .
“ 12.. . 1 VELSB Y, JOSEPH Walsenburg, Huerfano Co. .
Desperado
Alleged murder Alleged murder Alleged murder Alleged murder Alleged murder Alleged murder
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Apr. 15 ...COVINGTON, SAM |
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Oct. 14 HARRIS, GEORGE |
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“ 14 .SMITH, WILLIAM |
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• U ...JONES, CHARLES |
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1900 |
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Jan. 26... RE Y NOLDS, THOMAS ... |
Canon Citv. Fremont Co |
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May 22....KUNBLERN, CALVIN |
Pueblo, Pueblo Co |
Murder |
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Nov. 16... .PORTER, PRESTON |
Locality undetermined |
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1902 |
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Mar. 25.... WALLACE, WASHINGTON H La Junta, Otero Co.. |
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1906 |
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Dec. 27. ...LE BORG, LAURENCE ..... |
Las Animas, Bent Co |
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DELAWARE |
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1903 |
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June 12... .WHITE, GEORGE.— |
Near Wilmington, New Castle Co |
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FLORIDA |
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1890 |
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Mar. 29.. . SIMPSON, SIMMONS |
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July 18. JACKSON, GREEN |
Ft. White, Columbia Co.. .. |
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Dec. 11. ..WILLIAMS, DANIEL |
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1891 |
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Feb. 18. ..CHAMPION, |
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“ 18 ...KELLY, MICHAEL |
Gainesville, Alachua Co.. _ . |
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June 17. ...UNKNOWN NEGRO |
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“ 22....GRIFFEN, CHARLES . |
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Aug. 25.. ..FORD, ANDY - |
Bad reputation |
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Sept. 29....BARLEY, LEE |
De Land, Volusia Co.. |
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Dec. 15 UNKNOWN NEGRO |
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“ 15. ...TWO NEGROES |
Live Oak, Suwanee Co |
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Jan. 12 . ..HENSON, HENRY |
1892 Micanopy, Alachua Co |
Murder |
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Feb. 18....AUSTIN, WALTER... |
Arcadia, De Soto Co.. |
Murder |
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Mar. 30.... COBB, DENNISS. |
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May 25... WILLIAMS, JAMES. . |
Locality undetermined. |
Murder |
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“ 25... A NEGRO |
Locality undertermined— |
Murder |
54 Thirty Years of Lynching in the United States
FLORIDA — Continued
June 7....KANEKER, WILLIAM — Apalachicola, Franklin Co Rape
July 8. ...McDUFFIE, HENRY Orlando, Orange Co Stealing
Sept. 7.. ..A NEGRO Waldo, Alachua Co— Incendiary
Jan. 26.. ..WILLS, PATROCK .
July 12. ...LARKINS, ROBERT
Nov. 9....BOGGS, HENRY
“ 14....THREE NEGROES
1893
.Quincy, Gadsden Co Incendiarism
.Ocala, Marion Co Rape
.Fort White, Columbia Co Murder
.Lake City Junction, Columbia Co Murder
Jan. 9 . ..SMITH, SAMUEL
“ 14. WILLIS, CHARLES.....
May 13 ...ROSE, GEORGE
“ 15. ...YOUNG, NIM
“ 29. BURGIS, J. T
Sept. 14....SMITH, JAMES
Dec. 4. ..JACKSON, WILLIAM “ 17....A NEGRO
1894
.Greenville, Madison Co _ Murder
Ocala, Marion Co Desperado
.Locality undetermined Rape
Ocala, Marion Co Rape
.PalatkaJ Putnam Co Conspiracy
.Starke, Bradford Co Attempted rape
Ocala, Marion Co Rape
.Marion Co Rape
1895
Apr. 2....RAWLES, WILLIAM Locality undetermined Murder
May 19....ECHOLS, SAMUEL Ellaville, Madison Co— Rape
“ 19.. ..CROWLEY, SIMEON Near Ellaville, Madison Co Rape
“ 19 . BROOKS, JOHN ......Near Ellaville, Madison Co Rape
“ 30....THREE NEGROES Bartow, Polk Co Suspicion of rape
June 9....COLLINS, WILLIAM Mayo, Lafayette Co— Attempted rape
“ 11. ...TWO UNKNOWN NEGROES Mayo, Lafayette Co Concealing criminal
July 4....BENNET, ROBERT Near Lake City, Columbia Co Attempted rape
Aug. 18....LEWIS, SAMUEL Locality undetermined Murder
Jan. 13....JORDON, HARRY
Apr. 20.. . VAN BRUNT, JOHN
May 7....JONES, CHARLES
“ 11....WILSON, HARRY.
“ U....MURRAY.
July 6 . ..WILLIAMS, JACOB .._
Sept. 23 .HARRIS, CHARLES
““ 23... JOHNSON, ANTHONY
Nov. 28 ....DANIELS, ALFRED
1896
.Alachua, Alachua Co Murder
,De Land, Volusia Co Disorderly conduct
.Macclenny, Baker Co Without cause
.Madison Co— Unknown offense
.Madison Co— Unknown offense
Madison Co Rape
.Near Dc Land, Volusia Co Rape
.Dc Land, Volusia Co Rape
.Gainesville, Alachua Co -Arson
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1897 |
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Jan. 24 TAYLOR, PIERCE |
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Mar. 5 SMITH, OTEA . . |
Murder |
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“ 5.. ..GREEN, JACK |
Juliette, Marion Co |
Murder |
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“ 5 EDWARDS, HENRY |
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“ 5... JONES, SAM |
Juliette, Marion Co |
Murerr |
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“ 5. MELTON, WASH . |
Murder |
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“ 15. ..GILMORE, JAMES |
Juliette, Marion Co |
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“ 15 MILEY, JAMES — |
Murder |
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“ 15. MILLER,' OTIS |
Murder |
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June 5 BARRETT, ISAAC |
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Aug. 20 UNKNOWN NEGRO |
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Nov. 25....PRICE. HICKS - |
1898
Nov. 6. WILLIAMS, ARTHUR Wellborne, Suwanco Co.
Murder
Feb. 1. MARTIN, CHARLES...
June 1.3 A NEGRO
* 13....TWO NEGROES
Aug. 9. UNKNOWN NEGRO... Nov. 22.. ..LAWRENCE, WEST
1899
.Madison, Mndison Co Unknown offense
.Dunellon, Madison Co Murder
llunellon, Madison Co Race prejudice
Jasper, Hamilton Co.. Rape
.Near Pensacola, Escambia Co Rape
Chronological List of Persons Lynched
FLORIDA — Continued
1900
Mar. 11 ...UNKNOWN NEGRO Jennings, Hamilton Co Murder
May 14. ...TWO NEGROES Brooksvillc, Hernando Co Murder
June 10. ...UNKNOWN NEGRO Sneads, Jackson Co Suspected murder
June 10 ...SANDERS, JOHN Sneads, Jackson Co Complicity in murder
“ 27....DAVIS, ROBERT Mulberry, Polk Co Murder
* 27. ...THOMAS, JACK. Live Oak, Suwanee Co Attempted rape
* 29....BARCO, JAMES Panasoffkee, Sumter Co Unknown offense
Nov. 27. ...W I LLI AMS, SPENCE It Lake City, Columbia Co.._ Murderous assault
Jan. 7 DENSON, JAMES
“ 7... DENSON’S STEPSON
“ ir>. mckinney, norman
Feb. 8 WRIGHT, WILLIAM Feb. 8. WILLIAMS, SAM May 30... ROCHELLE, FRED Sept. 7.. ..UNKNOWN
1901
Madison, Madison Co Murder
Madison, Madison Co Murder
Dunnellon, Marion Co Trainwrecking
Dade City, Pasco Co Complicity in murder
Dade City, Pasco Co Complicity in murder
.Bartow, Polk Co Murder
.Chipley, Washington Co Rape
July 28... UNKNOWN NEGRO Aug. 1 WILLIAMS, ALONZO Sept. 1. PRICE, MANNY “ 1....SCRUGGS, ROBERT
1902
Bluff springs, Escambia Co Unknown offense
.San Antonio, Pasco Co.._ Rape
Newberry, Alachua Co Murder
..Newberry. Alachua Co Murder
Mar. 9....THOMAS, HENRY...
May 3.. KENNEDY, DAN
“ 19....7ARF/S, WASHINGTON.....
“ 20....RANDALL, AMOS..
“ 20 . ..GORDON, HENRY
July 18. ADAMS,
“ 21 GREEN, CRANE
Oct. 9 ...WILLIAMS, SAMUEL
Dec. 5.. LEWIS JACKSON.
1903
Parish, Manatee Co Rape
.Mulberry, Polk Co Murder
.Madison, Madison Co Murder
..Mulberry, Polk Co Murder
.Mulberry Polk Co Murder
..Lake Butler, Bradford Co Rape
..Pine Barren. Rape
..Lawby, Bradford Co Refusing information
..Near Tampa, Hillsborough Co Attempted rape
Jan. 15... CLARK, JUMBO... May 20. UNKNOWN ...
Sept. 6 . ..BRADLEY, WASH.. Oct. 4 ....RIVERS, ...
1904
.High Springs, Alachua Co Rape
Mulberry, Polk Co.._ Unknown offence
.Bronson, Levy Co .....Murder
.Perry, Taylor Co Attempted rape
1905
July 1....PETERS, DOC Cottondale, Jackson Co.
Murder
May 17....JORDAN, FRANK
June 8 DAVIS, JAMES
July 27... BLACK, JOHN
“ 27....REAGIN, WM
Aug. 21....BAPES, JOHN
Nov. 9 . ..UNKNOWN NEGRO.
1906
Inverness, Citrus Co Murder
Inverness, Citrus Co — Murder
.Locality undetermined Murder
.Locality undetermined Murder
Mulberry, Polk Co Murderous assault
.Madison, Madison Co Rape
Feb. 2.. ..PITMAN, CHAS
Mar. 5 ....LONG, JOHN.
July 29 . SHAW, LEANDER Oct. 5.. ..PRICE, BENJAMIN..
1908
.Greenville, Madison Co Suspected murder
.Newberry, Alachua Co Murder
.Pensacola, Escambia Co. Attempted rape
.Locality undetermined Rape
1909
Feb. 13....NADER, JACOB Lakeland, Polk Co
Apr. 5....ALEXANDER, DAVID Pensacola, Escambia Co..
“ 10... .SMITH, JNO Arcadia, De Soto Co
May 9.. ..UNNAMED NEGRO ...Duval Co
June 6.— MORRIS, MAIX Tallahassee, Leon Co
“ 15....UNNAMED NEGRO Arcadia, De Soto Co
Sept. 26... .ANDERSON, CHAS Perry, Taylor Co..__
Rape
Murder
Rape
Rape
Murder
.Attempted rape Murder
56 Thirty Years of Lynching in the United States
FLORIDA — Continued
1910
Mar. 7. ...ELLIS, WADE Tampa, Hillsborough Co .Murder
“ 7 ... ELLIS, SAM Tampa, Hillsborough Co Murder
“ 8.... .NEGRO Tampa, Hillsborough Co Murder
June 11....MATTHEWS, ROBERT Locality undetermined Rape
July 9.... McINTOSH, SAM Kathleen, Polk Co Attempted murder
July 30... TWO NEGROES.. Bonifay, Holmes Co Murder
Aug. 2... FOUR NEGROES Bonifay, Holmes Co Complicity in mur-
der
Sept. 2 . ..CHRISTIAN, EDWARD Graceville, Jackson Co.._ Murder
“ 2... BOWMAN, HATTIE Graceville, Jackson Co Complicity in mur-
der
“ 20 ...TICORETEA, CASTE NEGO Tampa, Hillsborough Co Attempted murder
“ 20— .ALB A NO, ANGELO Tampa, Hillsborough Co Attempted murder
Nov. 26.... LOWE, RICHARD Mayo, Lafayette Co Attempted rape
“ 26.... MATTHEWS, ROBERT Gull Point, Escambia Co.._ Rape
1911
Mar. 5... BAKER, GALVIN Marianna, Jackson Co Threats to kill
May 21 ...SIX UNKNOWN NEGROES Lake City, Columbia Co Murder
1912
Apr. 15....ARLINE, SAM Near Tampa, Hillsborough Co Murder
July 4. ...ENGLISH, WM Bradentown, Manatee Co Insulting white
woman
Sept. 14... MURPHY, H — Atlon, Lafayette Co. Rape
Nov. 14... NELLIS, PREECH Ocala, Marion Co._ Murder
“ 19. ...ARCHER, JNO. Ocala, Marion Co Murder
1913
July 6— SMITH, ROSCOE Yellow River Murder
“ 7. UNNAMED NEGRO. Bonifay, Holmes Co.__ Rape
“ 10... .TEMPERS, KID Blountstown, Calhoun Co Murder
1914
Nov. 14.... EVANS, JOHN St. Petersburg, Pinellas Co Murder
1915
Feb. 17 ... RICHARDS, JOHN Sparr, Marion Co Insulting women
Feb. 28.. ..REED, WILLIAM Kissimmee, Osceola Co Rape
July 23... OWENS, H. M Trenton, Alachua Co.._ Popular prejudice,
Aug. 6. ...LEACH, WILLIAM Dade City, Pasco Co Rape
“ 12 ....CR UM, A UDR Y. Osceola, Orange Co Murder
1916
Jan. 28— ANDERSON, RICHARDSON Ocala, Marion Co._ Murder
Apr. 16....DUKE, JOHN Bonifay, Holmes Co Murder
“ 17 ....DYKES, JOHN Vernon, Washington Co Murder
Aug. 19... YOUNG, STELLA Newberry, Alachua Co Alleged accessory
to murder
“ 19— DENNIS, MARY Newberry, Alachua Co Alleged
19— DENNIS, BERT... Newberry, Alachua Co Alleged
19.. . McHENRY, ANDREW. Newberry, Alachua Co Alleged
19.. . HASKINS, JOHN Newberry, Alachua Co. Alleged
19.. .. DENNIS, JAMES Newberry, Alachua Co Alleged
1917
accessory to murder accessory to murder accessory to murder accessory to murder accessory to murder
Mar. 29.. ..GARNER, S. G Kissimmee, Osceola Co Refusal to give up
farm
June 25... .TRENT, SHEPHERD I’unta Gorda, Dc Soto Co. Attempted rape
GEORGIA
1889
.Irwinville, Irwin Co Rape
Tunncll Hill, Wit field Co... Rap
.East Point, Fulton Co Rape
e
July 1. UNKNOWN NEGRO “ 11 LOVE, MARTIN
Sept. 4 POWERS, WARREN
Chronological List of Persons Lynched
57
GEORGIA — Continued
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Oct. 1 DUNCAN, JOHN |
Spring Place, Murry Co |
Living with a white |
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‘ 12 MOORE, WILLIAM |
woman |
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Nov. 10 ...THOMAS, JOHN |
... Midvile, Burke Co |
....Rape |
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“ 16 ANTHONY, JOHN |
.. Lincolnton, Lincoln Co..„ |
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Dec. 26 JACKSON, PETER |
... Jesup, Wayne Co |
Race hatred |
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“ 26. HOPPS, WILLIAM |
... Jesup, Wayne Co |
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1890 |
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Feb. 28 . BROWN, WASHINGTON... Mar. 24 MARTIN, SAMUEL |
... Athens, Clark Co ... ...Wrightsville, Johnson Co.._ ... |
Murder |
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June 10 PRINCE, GEORGE |
. ..Elbert Co |
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■ io poke, Jesse |
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* 10 PERRY, 'RICH |
Unpopularity |
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“ 13 PENNER, GEORGE |
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“ 28 ROBERTS, ANDREW |
...Waycross, Ware Co |
Rape |
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July 11 HARMON, JAMES. |
....Social Circle, Walton Co |
Rape |
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Oct. 12 WOSTEN, FRANK |
....Homer, Banks Co |
Incendiarism |
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“ 24 WILLIAMS, JOHN |
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“ 31 TWO NEGROES |
Rape |
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“ 31. POLASCO, |
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Nov. 1... JONES, OWEN |
Rape |
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“ 19. SIMMONS, JOHN |
—Cairo, Grady Co |
Rape |
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Dec. 3. UNKNOWN NEGRO |
. ..Home, Floyd Co |
Unknown cause |
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1891 |
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Feb. 21. KING, WESLEY- |
....Locality undetermined. |
Murder |
|
“ 26. WEST, ALLEN... |
Rape |
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July 1 BUCK, DANIEL |
Rape |
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Aug. 29... OWENS, WILLIAM |
... Jesup, Wayne Co |
Rape |
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Sept. 26. MACK, CHAS |
Rape |
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Nov. 2 ... NIX, LARKIN |
Murder |
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Dec. 16 . ..GOLDEN, WELCOME— |
.... Waycross. Ware Co |
Rioting |
14 . KINGUT, ROBERT Wavcross, Ware Co
15.. ..UNKNOWN NEGRO Camak, Warren Co
...Rioting
..Burglary
1892
...Mitchell Co Murder
..Ware Co Murder
Jan. 9....NUX,
Mar. 1....JONES,
Apr. 5 ... FIVE NEGROES (5) Near Lithonia, Dekalb Co— Rape
“ 14. ...WEST, WILLIAM Locality undetermined Murder
Ma3’ 17... THREE NEGROES (3) Clarksville, Habershaw Co Suspected robbery
“ 21... SMITH, SERBORN Covington, Newton Co Rape
June 11... MORELAND, ANDERSON Forsythe, Monroe Co Rape
July 21... UNKNOWN NEGRO Jesup, Wayne Co Supposed offense
Aug. 25.. ..HOWARD, BENJ Josselin, Liberty Co Murder
Sept. 8.... WILLIAMS, JESSE Eastman, Dodge Co Attempted rape
Oct. 26.... WILSON, JAMES. Dalton, Whitfield Co Race prejudice
Nov. 26....SCOTT, GESTER Calhoun, Gordon Co Murder
Aug. 30.. ..JESSY, JOHN Near Forsyth, Monroe Co Rape
1893
Mar. 1... HILL, THOMAS Spring Place, Murray Co Rape
May 23....MUCHLEA, EPHRIM Hazelhurst, Jeff Davis Co Murder
“ 23.. ..UNKNOWN NEGRO Hazelhurst, Jeff Davis Co Murder
July 17.. ..DEAN, WARREN Locality undetermined Rape
Oct. 22 ... JENKINS, EDWARD Clayton Co. _ Murder
Dec. 2.. ..HOLT, LUCIUS.. Concord, Pike Co Murder
“ 19 . ..FERGUSON, WILLIAM Adel, Berrien Co Turning State’s
evidence
“ 25.... THOMAS, CALVIN Locality undetermined Unknown offense
Feb. 10....COLLINS,
1894
..Athens,
Clarke Co Enticing servant
away
“ 15....COLLINS, ROBERT.- Oglethorpe, Macon Co Race prejudice
Mar. 5— RHODES, SYLVESTER. Collins, Jasper Co Murder
Apr. 6....AHREN, DANIEL Greensboro, Greene Co Rape
“ 10 ....CASH, EDWARD Greensboro, Greene Co Rape
“ 20 ....WORLEY, HENRY Murry Co Unknown offense,
by white caps
“ 26....EVARTS, ROBERT Locality undetermined Rape
May 22— A NEGRO._ Miller Co— ..Rape
June 13... A NEGRO— Blackshear, Pierce Co Rape
“ 18— OPIETRESS, OWEN Forsythe, Monroe Co Rape
58 Thirty Years of Lynching in the United States
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June 28....FRANKLIN, FAYETTE |
GEORGIA — Continued Mitchell Co |
Rape |
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Sept. 19....GOOSENBY, DAVID |
..Rape |
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Nov. 8....LA WHENCE, LEE |
Jasper Co.. |
Rape |
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Deo. 23. ...TAYLOR, SAMUEL. . |
Brooks Co.._ |
Murder |
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“ 23 ...FRAZIER, CHARLES.. “ 23 PIKE, SAMUEL |
Brooks Co |
Murder Murder |
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“ 23. . SIIERARD, HARRY |
Brooks Co |
Murder |
“ 23....THREE UNKNOWN NEGROES
(3)
Brooks Co
.Murder
Jan. 9 COLDHAND, GEORGE.
Mar. 2....ROBERTSON, CHARLES
“ 14. ...GIBSON, ARMOR
May 2....BROWNLEE, THOMAS
“ 22....CON NELL, WILLIAM
June 18.. ..HARRIS, GEORGE.
July 2....CHANDLER, SAMUEL
Aug. 12. ...HARRIS, WILLIAM
Oct. 4....SMITH, NEAL.__
Nov. 4. ..JEFFERSON, LEWIS...
“ 23 ....PERD VE, L. W
“ 25.. ..HANCOCK, BALAM
Dec. 1....SUTTON, LONG
“ 1 ....SUTTON, HENRY
“ 8 ....SMITH, JAMES...
Feb. 9....BLA KE, H Y
May 12.. ..HARDEE, WILLIAM
June 1....SLAYTON, JESSE
“ 1. .. MILES, WILLIAM
Sept. 16.... WARREN, LEM
“ 27...JBOONE, HARRISON.
Oct. 7.... WILLIAMS, CHARLES
“ 15....MILNER, HENRY
Jan. 5....GUST, SIDNEY..
“ 9. ..HENDERSON, ANTHONY ...
“ 22... .WHITE, WILLIAM
“ 22.. ..FORSYTHE, CHARLES
“ 27.. . BRANNAN, GEORGE
May 18....CAPT. LEWIS
July 19....R YDER, W. L
“ 23. ..WILLIAMS, OSCAR...
Aug. 23 . ..GREEN, ANDREW...
Sept. 2.. . SCOTT, BEN
“ 12....GIBSON, CHARLES ...
Oct. 2.. . JOHNSON, FRANK
Nov. 18....RUFF, JOSHUA.
“ 19 ...CONNELL, WILLIAM
1895
Colquitt Co Murder
Allendaletown, Wilkinson Co Murder
Forsyth, Monroe Co Rape
Butts Co Informing
Montgomery Co Murder
Near Dublin, Laurens Co Attempted rape
Monroe, Walton Co Unknown offense
Colquitt Co Attempted assault
Locality undetermined Rape
Homersville, Clinch Co Rape
Locality undetermined Rape
Gibson, Glasscock Co Attempted rape
Unadilla, Dooly Co Desperado
Unadilla, Dooly Co Desperado
Monticello, Jasper Co Informer
1896
Locality undetermined Illicit distilling
Nicols, Coffee Co Assault
Columbus, Muscogee Co Rape
Columbus, Muscogee Co Rape
Terrell Co Rape
Sparta, Hancock Co Shooting at officer
Locality undetermined Murder
Griffin, Spalding Co Rape
1897
Locality undetermined Race prejudice
Unadilla, Dooly Co Murder
Jeffersonville, Twiggs Co Murder
Jeffersonville, Twiggs Co Murder
Locality undetermined Assault
Lumpkin, Stewart Co Alleged arson
Waverly, Harris Co Murder
Griffin, Spalding Co Attempted rape
Lovett, Laurens Co Murder
Echols Co Stealing cattle
Mason, Bibb Co Murder
Locality undetermined. Rape
Gibson, Glasscock Co Rape
Dublin, Laurens Co Murder
1898
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Feb. 1. .BELIN, JOHN |
Murder |
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“ 13 ....DILLARD, WHIT |
....Blue Ridge, Fannin Co |
Murder |
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Mar. 24... ALLEN, JOSEPH May 27. OLLIVER, RICHARD |
... Moultrie, Colquitt Co |
Murder |
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Aug. 8.. ..MEADOWS, JOHN “ 20. UNKNOWN NEGRO |
.. .Carmel, Meriwether Co Americus, Sumter Co |
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Sept. 7. WILLIAMS, JOHN |
Rape |
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“ 11 BURTON, GEORGE |
Rape |
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Nov. 23.. MERRIWEATHER, EDWARD |
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Dec. 6... GLOVER, JACOB . . |
....Monticello, Jasper Co.. |
Murder |
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“ 6 ANDERSON, JAMES |
Murder |
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“ 26 ....BOLTON, JEFF |
Harmony Grove, Jackson Co. |
Arson |
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Feb. 11 BIVINS, GEO. L. |
1899 |
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“ 11. HOLT, WILLIAM |
... Leesburg, Lee Co |
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“ 11 FOOT, GEORGE |
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Mar. 16....CATLEN, BUD |
Palmetto, Campbell Co |
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“ 16 BINGHAM, HENRY |
Palmetto, Campbell Co.._ |
Arson |
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* 16.. HUTSON, TIP. |
Palmetto, Campbell Co |
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* 16 BROWN, EDWARD |
Palmetto, Campbell Co — |
Chronological List of Persons Lynched
59
GEORGIA — Continued
Mar. 16....BIGLEY, JOHN ... Palmetto, Campbell Co.. Arson
Apr. 25... HOSE, SAMUEL Newman, Cowetta Co Murder and rape
“ 25 . ..STRICKLAND, ELIJA.H Palmetto, Campbell Co... Alleged complic ity
* in murder
* 27....DANIEL, MITCHELL Leesburg, Lee Co Inflammatory lan-
guage
May 22 .. LINTON, THOMAS Locality undetermined Race prejudice
June 16.. ..WILLIAMS, Near Odum, Wayne Co Attempted rape
“ 16.. ..CLARK, DAVID Near Odum, Wayne Co Resisting arrest
July 23....SAMMIN, LOUIS Safford, Early Co Robbery and
murder
* 23....TWO UNKNOWN NEGROES (2).SafTord, Early Co Robbery and
murder
* 23 . ..FISH-HEAD GUS Safford, Early Co Robbery and
murder
* 23.... JOHNSON, WASHINGTON ...Safford, Early Co Robbery and
murder
* 25 . ..MACK, CHARLES... Safford, Early Co Complicity in
murder
“ 25.. ..UNKNOWN NEGRO. Near Leesburg, Lee Co Alleged complicity
in murder
Aug. 1.. . JONES, SOLOMON Forrest, Columbia Co Attempted rape
* 3 . ..HENDERSON, LOUIS— Blakely, Early Co Rape
“ 11 — McCLUE, WILLIAM Clem, Carroll Co Attempted rape
Sept. 14 — UNKNOWN NEGRO Ty Ty, Tift Co... Rape
Oct. 24....GOOSBY, JOHN Locality undetermined. Attempted murder
Nov. 23....UNKNOWN NEGRO Jackson, Butts Co. Attempted rape
1900
Mar. 18 . ..BARLEY, JOHN ..Marietta, Cobb Co Attempted rape
Apr. 3. ..BROOKS, ALLEN Berryville.. Rape
May 4....JONES, MARSHALL Douglas, Coffee Co Murder
“ 13 . ..WHITNEY, ALEX Harlem, Columbia Co Murder
‘ 14.... WILLIS, WILLIAM.. Grovetown, Columbia Co. ... Murder
June 9... ADAMS, SIMON Near Columbus, Muscogee Co.. ..Attempted rape
“ 11.... JEFFERSON, LENNY ... Metcalf, Thomas Co Attempted rape
* 27... HINES, JORDAN Molena, Pike Co Unknown offense
Sept. 8.... WELLY, GRANT. Thomasvitle, Thomas Co .Assaulting a white
man
Oct. 19 . ..HARDEMAN, FRANK WUlaston Rape
“ 24....GUER, JAMES Liberty Hill, Pike Co Race prejudice
“ 24....CALEAWAY, JAMES Liberty Hill, Pike Co. .. Race prejudice
Dec. 8....RUFUS, BUD..„ Near Rome, Floyd Co Murder
“ 28. ...FULLER, GEORGE Marion Co... Arson
1901
Jan. 3 . ..READ, GEORGE Rome, Floyd Co Suspected rape
“ 3....THOMPSON, STERLING Campbell Co Race prejudice
“ 5....UNKNOWN NEGRO Near Quitman, Brooks Co Rape
Mar. 2... .MOODY, JOHN Bryan Co Cause unknown, by
white caps
“ 13.... HARRIS, SHERMAN Shellman, Randolph Co Murder
“ 18 — UNKNOWN NEGRO Randolph Co Murder
Apr. 15... GORDON, KENNEDY Portal, Bulloch Co Attempted rape
29....GROUSLSBY, WILLIAM Elberton, Elbert Co Murderous assault
May 10... JOHNSON, HENRY Valdosta, Lowndes Co Murderous assault
June 29... UNKNOWN NEGRO Georgetown, Quitman Co Attempted rape
July 25...ERLE, FRANK. Vidalla, Montgomery Co Robbery
Aug. 10....UNKNOWN NEGRO Ways Station, Bryan Co Rape
Nov. 1 — UNKNOWN NEGRO Allentown, Wilkinson Co Attempted rape
1902
Mar. 29 — YOUNG, RICHARD Near Savannah, Chatham Co Murder
Apr. 1... .ALLEN, WALTER. Rome, Floyd Co Attempted
criminal assault
“ 22....YOUNG, HARRY Locality undetermined Unknown offense
July 28. ...McCAULEY, ARTHUR Locality undetermined Murder
“ 28...WISE, JOHN. .Pembroke, Bryan Co Rape
Aug. 31....BROSIN, JOHN Monticello, Jasper Co Attempted rape
Oct. 23....BROWN, BENJ Tallapoosa, Haralson Co Rape
1903
Feb. 7....HILL, LEE Wrightsville, Johnson Co Murder
“ 24....FAMBRO, WTLLIAM Griffin, Spalding Co Insulted white
woman
Apr. 23-..RAINEY, ANDREW Bainbridge, Decatur Co .Arson
GO Thirty Years of Lynching in the United States
GEORGIA — Continued
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Rape |
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1 GORMAN,' BENJ |
Murder |
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24. McCOY, ' GARFIELD |
Murder |
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24... McKINNEY, GEORGE- |
Newton, Baker Co |
Murder |
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24 ANNETT. WILEY |
Murder |
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—....UNKNOWN NEGRO |
Rape |
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16 UNKNOWN NEGRO |
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Mav 15 CUMMINGS. TNO |
1904 |
Rape |
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June |
1 THOMPSON. ARTHUR |
Murder |
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Aus. 16... REED. PAUL |
Murder |
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16....CATO; WM. |
Murder |
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17... ROGERS, ALBERT .... |
Race prejudice |
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17 .SON OF ROGERS |
Race prejudice |
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17....LESUERE, RUFUS |
Assault |
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22„, GLOVER, JAS. .. _. |
Rape |
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28... SCOTT, |
Murder |
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30.. . McBRIDE. SEBASTIAN |
Race prejudice |
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Sept. IS WARE. INO |
Murder |
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21. ...troy, Jack:, |
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21. ..MARSHALL, EDW |
Murder |
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Oct. |
12 .. WEAVER. MOSES |
Murder |
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Nov. 29 ... SIMMONS, HURBERT.... |
Murder |
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June 29. AYCOCK. LON T |
1905 |
Murder |
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29.., ROBINSON, RICH. |
Murder |
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29., ROBINSON, LEWIS.,,. |
Murder |
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29,. ELDER, CLAUDE |
_ Murder |
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29,, ALLEN, RICH |
Murder |
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29, YERLY', GENE |
Murder |
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29 , HARRIS, ROBT, |
Murder |
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Oct. |
29 PRICE, SANDY 8. .SEABRIGHT, THOS. |
Watkinsville, Oconee Co |
Rape |
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29 .GOODMAN, AUGUSTUS |
Bainbridge, Decatur Co |
Murder |
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Mav 14 WOMACK. WM. |
1906 |
Rape |
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23„ IRWIN. JOHN |
Murder |
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July 11. ...PEARSON, ED “ 31... CARMICHAEL, FLOYD |
Swainsboro, Emanuel Co |
..Murderous assault Rape |
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Sept. 10.. ..MILLER. CHAS. |
Attempted rape |
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May |
7„ HARRIS, CHAS |
1907 |
Murder |
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21, FIVE NEGROES (5) |
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July |
1 ..POSE Y "DOCK” |
Rape |
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2., HERBERT, GEO. |
.Murderous assault |
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Oct. |
27- WILKS, JNO |
Robbery |
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1908 |
Jan.
Feb.
Mar.
Juno
July
Aug.
Sept
Oct.
9 COLEY, THOS Goldsboro,
9 WEBB, ISAAC Goldsboro, •
..Murderous assault ..Murderous assault
17.. UNKNOWN NEGRO Statcboro, Bulloch Co Rape
24. . ..THOMPSON GILBERT Stateboro, Bulloch Co Rape
(Alleged rape, proved innocent afterwards.)
26.. ..UNKNOWN NEGRO Valdosta, Lowndes Co Conspiracy to do
violence
6.. ..CURRY, ROBERTSON Hawkinsville, Pulaski Co..__ Murder
6.. . HENRY, JOHN Hawkinsville, Pulaski Co Murder
27. .. WILKINS, WALTER ..Waycross, Ware Co... Rape
27. . ..BAKER, ALBERT Waycross, Ware Co..— Rape
27.. UNNAMED NEGRO Hiokox, Wayne Co Complicity in rape
29.. WILLIAMS, ALONZO Ohoopec, Tombs Co Attempted rape
7.. ..LOKIE, CHAS Tilton, Tift Co Insulting remarks
to white woman
25.. . WILLIAMS, VANCE. Louisville, Jefferson Co Murder
5.. ..TOWNE, JOHN Damascus, Early Co._ Rape
22.. . THOMAS, GEO Ft. Gaines, Clay Co Murderous assault
11.. . WHITE, HENRY— Younker, Dodge Co Murderous assault
1909
Feb. 19 . ..WYATT, ROLLEY Locality undetermined
.Murder
Chronological List of Persons Lynched
G1
GEORGIA — Continued
Feb. 22 T H RE E WHITE MES (3) Mineral bluff, Fannin Co Rape
Mar. 2... FOWLER, JOS Blakely, Early Co Murder
May 24. AIKENS, ALBERT. Lincolnton, Lincoln Co ...Murderous assault
June 22 ... CORNAKER, WM Talbotton, Talbot Co Unnamed offense
* 22 . ..HARDY, JOS Talbotton, Talbot Co Instigation of mur-
der
" 25 . ..REESE, ALBERT Cuthbert, Randolph Co Murderous assault
July 1... UNNAMED NEGRO Barnett, Warren Co Burglary
* 20....GREEN, KING Gum Branch, Liberty Co Insulting women
* 31. ANDERSON, SIMON Wellston, Houston Co Window peeping
Aug. 27 ....CLARK, BEN J. Tarrytown, Montgomery Co Murder
“ 27... .SWEENEY, JOHN Tarrytown, Montgomery Co.._ Complicity
“ 27. ...CLARK, B Sopertown, Montgomery Co Murder
Dec. 1... .HARVARD, JNO. Cochran, Bleckley Co Murder
1910
Feb. 20...XUMPKIN, DAN, Columbus Co
Mar. 2 — NEGRO Vidalia, Toombs Co
Apr. 15. ...ROYAL, ALBERT Amboy, Turner Co
■ 15 ...JACKSON, CHAS Amboy, Turner Co
May 27. .WILSON, CHAS, Albany, Dougherty Co
July 27....RALENT, EVAN Locality undetermined
* 31.... NEGRO Near Cairo, Grady Co
Apr. 11....TABOR, JAMES Alamo, Wheeler Co
Sept. 6 . ..TWO NEGROES (2) Clark Co
Nov. 8.. ..WALKER, JOHN Montezuma, Macon Co
“ S KARNES, WILLIAM Montezuma, Macon Co.
Alleged complicity
in murder
Attempted rape
and murder
Rape
Rape
Rape
Attempted rape
Rape
Rape
Attempted burg- lary and murder
Murder
Murder
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Jan. 22. JOHNSON, WM. . |
Murder |
|
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Feb. 25 JONES, ROBERT |
Murder |
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* 25. VEASE, JOHN |
Murder |
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Apr. 7. HALE, CHARLES Apr. 8 ...JORDAN, DAWSON. . |
.. ..Lawrence ville, Gwinnett Co. |
Rape |
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Murder |
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• 8 PICKETT, CHARLES _ |
Murder |
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* 8. BURTON, MURRAY _ |
Murder |
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May 18. McLEOD, JOHN. |
Murder |
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* 21. SMITH, BENJAMIN |
Murder |
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* 22. MOORE, JOSEPH |
Murder |
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June 30. ALLEN, THOMAS |
Rape |
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* 31 WATTS, FOSER |
Suspicioned rape |
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July 11. McGROFF, WM. . . . |
Murder |
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Aug. 29 . ..DAVIS, PETER |
Murder |
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Oct. 5-..UNNAMED NEGRO |
Attempted rape |
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‘ 11. ...CHAP WAN, ANDREW * 19 ...LOVELACE, TERRY. |
. ... Locality undetermined — |
Attempted rape ...Murderous assault |
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“ 28.. . WALKER, DANIEL |
Murder |
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Dec. 21. ..WARREN, JOHN |
Murder |
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1912 |
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Jan. 22. .HEMMING, EUGENE .. |
Murder |
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* 22. MOORE, JNO. _ |
Murder |
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‘ 22 CRUTCHFIELD, JNO. * 22. HATHAWAY, BELLE |
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Murder |
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“ 30... HAMILTON, ALBERT . |
...Rape |
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Feb. 4....POWELL, CHAS- |
..Assault and Rob- |
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Mar. 21 ...BURK, HOMER |
bery Murder |
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Apr. 26...XTHERIDGE, HENRY. June 25... BOSTWICK, ANN |
....Near Jackson, Butts Co — |
Race prejudice, Murder |
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Aug. 13 . ..COTTON, T. Z. |
Murder |
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Sept. 10... .ED WARDS, ROBT- .. |
..Complicity in mur- |
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Oct. 5 YARBOROUGH, |
der |
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N'ov. 30.... WILLIAMS, CHESBLEY. |
Cordele, Crisp Co |
Murder |
1913
Mar. 4. ...TWO UNNAMED NEGROES (2)..Cornelia, Habersham Co Murder
May 5.—OWENSBY, SAMUEL Hogansvalle. Troup Co Murder
June 21. ...UNNAMED NEGRO Americus, Sumter Co Murder
62 Thirty Years of Lynching in the United States
GEORGIA — Continued
July 28.... SHAKE, JOHN Locality undetermined Murderous assault
Aug. 15 . ..LOVETT, ROBERT Morgan, Calhoun Co _ Murder
Aug. 25....SWANSON, VIRGIE (F) Greenville, Meriwether Co Alleged murder,
proved innocent
1914
Sept. 20.. ..BROWN, NATHAN Rochells, Ogle Co Murder
1915
Jan. 15.. ..BARKER, SAMUEL Monticeilo, Jasper Co Resisting arrest for
murderous assault
“ 15 . ..BARKER, JESSE Monticeilo, Jasper Co .Resisting arrest for
murderous asault
“ 15.. ..CHARLES, EULA (F) Monticeilo, Jasper Co Resisting arrest for
murderous assault
“ 23....MORRIS, PETER. Arlington, Calhoun Co Murder
Feb. 4....CULBERSON, A. B Evens, Columbia Co Rape
Apr. 16... .SHEFFIELD, CAESAR. Valdosta, Lowndes Co Theft
June 14....HEVENS, SAMUEL Toccoa, Habersham Co Rape
July 5 ...GREEN, WILLIAM & SON (2)..Macon, Bibb Co ...Alleged murder
“ 21 .... FLAMBE, PETER Cochran, Pulaski Co Accessory to mur-
der
“ 21. ...JACKSON, Cochran, Pulaski Co Accessory to mur-
der
Aug. 17 ....FRANK, LEO M Near Milledgeville Alleged rape and
murder
Aug. 17. ...RIGGINS, JOHN Bainbridge, Decatur Co Rape
Oct. 21. ...GREEN, ALONZO & SON (2) Wayside, Jones Co Murder
Dec. 20. ...BLAND, SAMUEL Eastman, Dodge Co Unnamed cause
“ 20 . ..STEWART, WILLIAM Eastman, Dodge Co Unnamed cause
1916
Jan. 21... LAKE, FELIX.. Sylvester, Worth Co Murder
“ 21...XAKE, FRANK Sylvester, Worth Co Murder
“ 21....LAKE, DEWEY Sylvester, Worth Co.._ Murder
“ 21. ...LAKE, MAJOR Sylvester, Worth Co Murder
“ 21LEAMON, RODIUM Sylvester, Worth Co Murder
Feb. 12— HARRIS, HARVIN Near Macon, Bibb Co Murder
“ 25 ...McCORTELE, JESS. Cartersville, Bartow Co Attempted rape
Aug. 21... LEWIS, Valdosta, Lowndes Co Alleged burglary
Sept. 21— WHITE, HENRY— Durand, Meriwether Co Rape
“ 26 HUDSON, PETER Cuthbert, Randolph Co Murder
“ 26. STURGIS, ELIJAH .. Cuthbert, Randolph Co Murder
“ 29. ...SHULER, MOXIE Bainbridge, Decatur Co Attempted rape
“ 29.. . TWO UNNAMED NEGROES (2). .Gordon, Wilkinson Co Accessory to mur-
der
Oct. 4... .CONNELL, MARY Leary’s, Calhoun Co Accessory to mur-
der
“ 7....SMITH, CHARLES
Near Sandersville, Washington
Co.. Murder
1917
Mar. 1 ..CLINTON, LINTON- „ Meigs, Thomas Co.. Rape
Mar. 28 NOWLING, JOE Pelham Reason unknown
Sept. 18. MONCRIEF, RUFUS Whitehall, Clarke Co... Rape
Nov. 16— STATEN, JESSE Quitman, Brooks Co Insulting white
woman
Nov. 17. JOHNSON, COLLINS Sale City Disputing white
man's word
“ 17— JOHNSON, D. C. Sale City.. Disputing white
man's word
Dec. 15— DEKLE, CLAXTON Metter. Killing in quarrel
IDAHO
1892
Oct. 17.. ..EIGHT HORSE THIEVES.... Deer Flat,
Jan. 5 .. ROBERTS, ALBERT ...
1893
.Locality undetermined...
Murder
Chronological List of Persons Lynched
85
IDAHO — Continued
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June 3....M YERS, T. M.. |
Murder |
1011
Sept. 9 — HALLICK, PETER Grangeville, Idaho Co Wife beating
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June 29 ...FRISB V, RO Y Ah Feb. 3....MI LLER, AMOS... June 3. BUSH, SAM |
ILLINOIS 1891 1892 1893 |
Bv white caps Rape |
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July 14. BUTLER, ALLEN |
-.Criminal abortion |
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June 26....P/ N KERTON, WILLIAM. |
1894 Spring valley, Bureau Co |
Rape |
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May 25 ... HALLS, JOHN. |
1895 |
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* 25 ... RO YCE, WILLIAM. |
Dnaville, Vermillion Co |
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Feb. 12....GRANT |
1896 Sullivan, Moultrie Co |
Murder |
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Aug. 19... U N KNOW N TRAMP |
1897 Manheim, Cook Co |
Murderous assault |
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Nov. 7 STEWART, F. W |
1898 Lacon, Marshall Co |
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Dec. 21 SIMMS, WM |
Murder |
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Feb. 26... HUGHES, WOODFORD |
1902 Locality undetermined |
Disreputable char- |
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Sept. 4 BROWN, EDWARD |
acter Attempted rape |
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Apr. 26.. ..UNKNOWN NEGRO |
1903 Thebes, Alexander Co |
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June 6... WYATT, DAVID |
Murder |
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July 23. MAYFIELD, I. D. |
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Aug. 15 ...BURTON, SCOTT... |
1908 |
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“ 16....DONIGAN, GEO.. __ .... . |
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Nov. 3....JONES, WM.... |
1909 |
Murder |
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Sept. 12.. ..TWO UNNAMED NEGROES. |
1913 Tamms, Alexander Co |
...Murderous assault |
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Oct. 12 ....CLAZA, ALBERT. |
1914 |
..Murder |
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June 10. .. STRANDS, JOSEPH . |
1915 Johnston City, Williamson Co Murder |
INDIANA
1889
June 12 ....DEVINE, JAMES. Corydon, Harrison Co Murder
“ 12 TENNYSON , CHAS Corydon, Harrison Co Murder
July 20.. ..WILLIS, PETER Warsaw, Kosciusko Co — Rape
86 Thirty Years of Lynching in the United States
INDIANA — Continued
Feb. 8.... Nov. 18....
May 22.... Aug. 22 ...
Jan. 11....WAGONER, SHERMAN ._
Sept. 15.... “ 15....
“ 15...
“ 15....
“ 15...
Dec. 24..
Dec. 16... “ 16... * 17...
Feb. 26.. Nov. 20..
July 1....AN INDIAN
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1890 ...Blountsville, Henry Co ...Locality undetermined |
...Crime unknown, desperado Rape |
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1891 |
Rape |
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...Shelbyville, Shelby Co |
Murder |
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1894 ...Mitchell, Lawrence Co.._ |
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1897 |
Burglary |
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Burglary |
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Burglary |
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Burglary |
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Burglary |
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1898 |
Murderous assault |
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1900 |
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Murder |
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Murder |
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Complicity in |
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1901 |
murder |
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Murder |
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1902 |
Rape |
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IOWA |
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1889 |
Rape |
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1890 |
Unknow'n cause |
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1893 |
Murder |
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1894 |
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Swindling |
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1896 |
Assault |
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1901 ...Moscow, Muscatine Co |
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1907 |
Murder |
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CANSAS |
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1889 |
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Horse stealing |
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1892 ...Rosalia, Butler Co |
Jan. 16 ....HE HM AN, AUOUSTV
Sept. 14... THOMPSON, JAMES burned, Pawnee Co Rape
Nov. 29 . ..TRUE, COMMODORE Hiawatha, Brown Co Murder
Chronological List of Persons Lynched
05
KAN SAS — Continued
1893
Apr. 20 ADAMS, DAN. — Salina Murderous assault
Aug. 21. ...WILSON, JOHN Leavenworth, Leavenworth Co Itape
1894
Apr. 24 LUGGLE, JEFF. Cherokee, Crawford Co Murder
May 9 ....Me K I N DLE Y, W Sharon Springs, Wallace Co Murder
“ 9....Mc KI N DLE F, LEWIS Sharon Springs, Wallace Co Murder
1895
Apr. 3....W ALT E RS, NEWTON Locality undetermined Murder
1898
June 13....BEC KER, JOHN Great Bend, Barton Co Murder
1899
Mar. 2S....S.4 NDERSO N, HE NR K.~ Locality undetermined Murder
Apr. 25.... WILLIAMS, CHARLES ..Galena, Cherokee Co Murder
Oct. 30 . ..MILLS, GEORGE Weir, Cherokee Co Murder
1900
Jan. 20. ...SMITH, GEORGE Fort Scott, Bourbon Co.. _ Murder
“ 20....SMITH, EDWARD Fort Scott, Bourbon Co Murder
1901
Jan. 15. ...ALEXANDER, FRED Leavenworth, Leavenworth Co.. Murder and rape
May 13.. ..HERMAN, DR Topeka, Shawnee Co Race prejudice
1902
Dec. 25....GODLEY, MONTGOMERY Pittsburg, Crawford Co Murder
1910
Sept. 21 ....DUDLEY, BERT, Olathe, Johnson Co ...Murder
KENTUCKY
1889
May 20 . ..THORNTON, JOS Wickliffe, Ballard Co
June 24....CRA VASSO, TON Y AND ZiftO. Cumberland Gap, Whitley Co.
“ 26 — ARDELL, CHARLES Shepherdsville, Bullitt Co
July 23. ...MALONE, DANIEL Covington, Kenton Co
“ 23. ...KELLY, JAMES Paris, Bourbon Co
Nov. 24 ....SMITH, JOSEPH .1... Trenton, Todd Co....
De. 9.... TURNER , JOHN Greensburg, Green Co
“ 19. ...JONES, DOC. Owensboro, Daviess Co
1890
Apr. IS.. ..MOODY, SAMUEL .Auburn, Logan Co
Aug. 17... HENDERSON, JOHN Midway, Woodford Co .
Let. 2.. ..HUMPHREYS, ERNEST Princeton, Caldwell Co
1891
Apr. 16....SKAPP, WILLIAM Old Union.
May 22....WI LCO X, JOHN Sandy Hook, Elliot Co
“ 22....WI LCO X, HY Sandy Hook, Elliot Co
July 20. ...BROWN, MARK Shelbyville, Shelby Co .
“ 25.. ..GRANGE, JOHN Franklin, Simpson Co
Aug. 28.. ..DUDLEY, JAMES. Georgetown, Scott Co
Sept. 15 — GILLILAND, JAMES H .Somerset, Pulaski Co
“ 15 ....GILLILAND, JOSIAH Somerset, Pulaski Co
Rape
.Murder
Murder
Rape
Rape
.Murder
.Murder
Murder
Murder
.Murder
.Murder
.Murder
Rape
Rape
Rape
Threats
Murder
Murder
Murder
1892
Jan. 28. ...GIBSON, LEE Owenton, Owen Co.._ Murder
June 1.... WILLIS, NICK Lebanon, Marion Co Rape
“ 8... PORTER, AUSTIN Grayson, Carter Co Wife-murder
“ 10 . ..HILL, CHARLES Paducah, McCracken Co Rape
July 12 ....REDFERI N, J. R Franklin, Simpson Co Murder
“ 29.. ..McDANIELS, LEE Oaks Crossing. Attempted rape
Aug. 16.. ..MURPHY, LOGAN. Mt. Sterling, Montgomery Co Murder
Sept. 2....WHCOXSON, JOHN. Edmonton, Metcalf Co Murder
Dec. 19 ...BOND, JAMES Guthrie, Todd Co Attempted rape
“ 28....A NEGRO Bowling Green, Warren Co Rape
66 Thirty Years of Lynching in the United States
KENTUCKY— Continued
Jan. 12....MOORMAN, EDWARD
“ 12. ...MOORMAN, RICHARD
May 3 ...COLLINS, JAMES
July 7 . MILLER, CHARLES.
Aug. 3 ....POOLE, FELIX
“ 18.. ..WALTON, CHARLES.
“ 19. ...NEGRO TRAMP
“ 28 . ..TAYLOR, LEONARD
Sept. 1 . McNEAL, JUDGE..
“ 2...ARKINSON, WILLIAM
Dec. 16.. ..GIVENS, HENRY
Jan. 1... .MITCHELL, JOSHUA
“ 21....GUMBLE, M. G
Mar. 2....TYE, LEN
June 20... HAINES, ARCHIE
“ 21. ...HAINES, BURT
“ 20... HAINES, WILLIAM
“ 24.. ..GODLY, CALEB
July 16....HOWARD, MARION
“ 26. ...TYLER, WILLIAM
Aug. 14. ..BOSTON, MARSHALL
Oct. 1 ...RICH, BERR F._
“ 8....RIC HARDSO N, AL
“ U....MORTON, OSCAR
“ 15.. ..GRIFFEY, WILLIS
Nov. 8.. ..NALLS, GABE
“ 8....NALLS, ULYSSESS
1893
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Murder |
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_ Murder |
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Rape |
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Attempted rape Rape |
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1894
.Leesburg Unknown offense
by white caps
.Jellico Mines, Whitley Co Rape
.Hariem Kidnapping
.Mason Co Horse stealing
.Mason Co Horse stealing
..Mason Co Horse stealing
.Bowling Green, Warren Co Rape
..Scottsville, Allen Co Rape
..Carlisle, Nicholas Co Attempted rape
Frankfort, Franklin Co Rape
.Marion Co ...Suspected robbery
.Irvine, Estill Co Rape and murder
..Stanton, Powell Co... Murder
Princeton, Caldwell Co Attempted rape
..Blackford, Webster Co Incendiarism
..Blackford, Webster Co Incendiarism
1895
Jan. 1....BLAU, THOMAS Mt. Sterling, Montgomery Co Murder
Apr. 26....RAY, GEORGE Gensonton,._ ..Being disreputable
May 16 .... HOW ESTO N , JOHN Marion, Crittenden Co Rape
“ 23....THOMPSON, CLAUDE — De Koven, Union Co Attempted rape
July 1 — COLSTON, ABIT HAL Trigg Co.._ Murder
“ 1. ...SMITH, MOLLIE Trigg Co Murder
“ 9... .HOW LETT HOW TON & SO N.. Lewiston Unknown offense
“ 15... .HUGGARD, ROBERT Winchester, Clark ( !o Alleged rape
Aug. 26 — LEWIS, HARRISON Springfield, Washington Co Murder
Sept. 2....BUTCHER, WILLIAM Hickman, Fulton Co Murder
Nov. 21. ...TWO NEGROES - Henderson, Henderson Co Rape
“ 25....UNKNOWN NEGRO Calvert, Marshall Co Train-wrecking
Dec. 29 ...DEVER, WILLIAM Lebanon, Marion Co Murder
“ 29.... WEST, MRS. T. J Lebanon, Marion Co Mob indignation
1896
Feb. 17 . ..MARTIN, FOMIT Monticello, Wayne Co Barn-burning
May 11. ...UNKNOWN NEGRO ..Fulton, Fulton Co — Murder
Sept. 14....WHITE, THOMAS Aurora, Fulton Co Unknown cause
Dec. 18 PROCTOR, PINK near Russellville, Logan Co Murder
“ 18 PROCTOR, ARCH near Russellville, Logan Co — ..Murder
“ 21. ...STONE, JAMES Mayfield, Graves Co..__ Rape
“ 22 . ..FINLEY, GEORGE Mayfield, Graves Co Theft
“ 26... .HOLT, ALFRED Owensboro, Daviess Co Murder
1897
Feb. 4....MORTON, ROBERT Rockford, Rockcastle Co Writing insulting
letters
Mar. 8 ... UNKNOWN NEGRO Rock Springs Stealing
Apr. 14 ...BRA YDEE, WILLI AM. near Middleboro, Bell Co Murder
July 22. BRINKLEY, EPHRIAM Madison Bad reputation
Aug, 15.. . WILSON, GEORGE Meyers Unknown cause
“ 22... S ULLIVA N, ELEA N Y - Williamsburg, Whitley Co Rape
Sept. 26....BRUSHROD, RAYMOND Hainesville Rape
1898
Feb. 23... ALLEN, RICHARD Mayfield, Graves Co,. Robbery
“ 23 HOLMES, THOMAS Mayfield, Graves Co Murder
Juno 16... CALLS, GAMS ,. Glasgow, Barren Co Rape
* 26... SCOTT, GEORGE Russellville, Logan Co. Rape
Chronological List of Persons Lunched
G7
KENTUCKY— Continued
Oct. 2....BAUER, ARCH Tompkinsville, Monroe Co Murderous assault
Dec. 16....(»0/ N, PLEAS near Middletown, Jefferson Co.._ Murder
1899
May 11 HOLLA ND, WALTER. Meyers Rape
June 27. STEVENS, HENRY Fulton, Fulton Co Highway robbery
Dec. G . ..COLEMAN, RICHARD MaysviUe, Mason Co..__ Murder
1900
Oct. 18....WARFIELD, FRATEN Elliston, Grant Co Attempted rape
1901
Sept. 12 ... HOWARD, FRANK.. Wickliff, Ballard Co Murder
“ 12 REED, SAM ... Wickliff, Ballard Co Murder
“ 12 HARRIS, ERNEST Wickliff, Bollard Co Murder
Oct. 2 FIELDS, JUMBO Shelbyville, Shelby Co Murder
“ 2....GARNETT, CLARENCE Shelbyville. Shelby Co Murder
Oct. 31. ...ESTERS, SILAS—„ Hodgenville, Larne Co Forcing white boy
to commit crime
1902
Jan. 11. ...MAYS, JAS Spyfield. Criminal assault
Feb. 6... BROWN, THOMAS Nicholasville, Jessamine Co Criminal assault
“ 15 DULY, BELL Fulton, Fulton Co Suspected murder
Mar. 20.... DRAKE, ELIJAH Madrid Bend, Breckenridge
Co Larceny
STEWART, JAS Madrid Bend, Breckenridge
Co Implicated in lar-
ceny
BLAMBARD, THOMAS Fulton, Fulton Co ...Murder
DEWLEY. ERNEST Brandenburg, Meade Co Murderous assault
B UC KLES, HARLAN Elizabethtown, Hardin Co Murder
20....!
Apr. 10..
* 30..
Nov. 16..
1903
July 14 ...THACKSON, WILLIAM MaysviUe, Mason Co— Murder
Oct. 9.. ..HALL, THOMAS Kevil, Ballard Co Murder
1904
Jan. 24. ...RADFORD, LEWIS Guthrie, Todd Co Murder
June 14....THOMPSON, MARIE Lebanon Junction, Bullitt Co Murder
July 17... UNKNOWN Locality undetermined Murder
Aug. 30....BUMPASS, JOE Near Hickman, Fulton Co Rape
1905
May 22.. ..SHAW, ROBERT. Waitman, Hancock Co Murder
July 7. ...BEARD, LEON Normandy, Spencer Co Rape
Oct. 12....LEAVELL, FRANK Elkton, Todd Co Attempted rape
1906
Jan. 22. ...BAKER, ERNEST Cadiz, Trigg Co Murder
1907
Aug. 16.. ..CLIFFORD, WM Maple Grove Rape and murder
1908
May 31 ...McDOWELL, JACOB Providence, Webster Co Murder
Aug. 1....JONES, VIRGIL RusseUviUe, Logan Co Expressing sympa-
thy with murder of white man
“ 1....JONES, ROBT RusseUviUe, Logan Co Expressing sympa-
thy with murder of white man
“ 1.... JONES, THOS RusseUviUe, Logan Co — Expressing sympa-
thy with murder of white man
“ 1.... RILEY, JOSEPH RusseUviUe, Logan Co -Expressing sympa- thy with murder
of white man
Oct. 4 ....DAVID WALLACE , WIFE
AND TWO C HILDRE N Hickory Grove, Simpson Co Making threats
Dec. 17 HILL, ELMER Monticello, Wayne Co Cause not given
68 Thirty Years of Lynching in the United States
KENTUCKY— Continued
1909
Apr. 9....BRAME, BENJ Hopkinsville, Christian Co Attempted rape
June 3 ...MAXEY, JNO Frankfort, Franklin Co Murder
Aug. 10.. ..MILLER, WALLACE Cadiz, Trigg Co Attempted rape
1910
Apr. 1 ....CARROLL Goff. By night riders
1911
Jan. 15. PATTERSON, WADE Shelbyville, Shelby Co. Insulting women
“ 15 . ..WEST, JAMES Shelbyville, Shelby Co Insulting women
“ 15... .MARSHALL, GENE Shelbyville, Shelby Co Murder
Apr. 21.... POTTER, WILLIAM Livermore, McLean Co Murder
25 ... FO UR U N KNOW N WHIT A’S.Campton, Wolfe Co Unknown cause
1913
Sept. 26... .RICHARDSON, JOSEPH Leitclifield, Grayson Co Rape
1914
Nov. 13 ... TEN NEGROES Rochester, Bulter Co By night riders
“ 13— ALLEY, HENRY Hillside, Muhlenberg Co By night riders
1915
Jan. 15....MOLI N N DRO, P Lovelaceville, Ballard Co— Night riders
Feb. 13— UNDERWOOD, HO USTON Irvine, Estil Co.— Unknown
“ 14... TV N KER, THOMAS .... Mayfield, Graves Co Murder
June 4. ...BELL, ARTHUR Princeton, Caldwell Co Rape
Sept. 10. ... JO H NSO N, CL A UDE Hickman, Fulton Co Murder
Nov. 26... .BUCKNER, ELLIS Henderson, Henderson Co Rape
1916
Oct. 16— HENLEY, BROCK __ Paducah, McCracken Co..
“ 16. -THORNHILL, JAMES Paducah, McCracken Co.
1917
Mar. 12 . ..SANDERS, WILLIAM Mayville, Macon Co
May 20 ....DEM PSE Y, LA URE NCE Fulton, Fulton Co
Rape
Expressing sympa- thy with Henley
Robbery
.Murderous assault
LOUISIANA*
1889
Jan. 25. ...WAKEFIELD, SAMUEL New Iberia, Iberia Co Murder
Feb. I.... ROSEMOND, ...New Iberia, Iberia Go Alleged cattle stealing
“ 10. ...HANDY, HAYWARD Houghton Self-defense
Apr. 18— HECTOR, Jr New Iberia, Ineria Co Murder
“ 19— UNKNOWN NEGRO Bayou Desard Rape
May 18— UNKNOWN NEGRO Columbia, Caldwell Co Burglary
June 5... .CONLEY, DICK Tangipahoa, Tangipahoa Co Unknown cause
“ 5... .HUEY, Tangipahoa, Tangipahoa Co Unknown cause
July 12 ...KEYES, FELIX Lafayette, Lafayette Co Murder
Nov. 18... .UNKNOWN NEGRO Vidalia, Goncordia Co Incendiarism
1890
Jan. 3 ...HOLMES, HENRY.. Bossier Parish Cause not given
“ 8— WARD, HENRY Bayou Sara. West Feliciana Co._ Murder
Mar. 15 .WILLIAM, PHILIP Napoleon villo, Assumption Co— Rape
June 16 ... SWAYEY, GEORGE East Feliciana Political causes
“ 29 . ..COLEMAN, JOHN Shreveport, Caddo Co Murder
Aug. 22.. ..ALEXANDER, WILLIAM Baton Rouge, East Baton
Rouge Co Attempted rape
1891
Nov. 21. UNKNOWN NEGRO Near Baton Rouge, East Baton
Rouge Co Race prejudice
Mar. 14 ...SCAFFEDI, A NTO NIO New Orleans, Orleans Co Alleged conspiracy
to murder
“ H....M ACLEC II A, JOSEPH New Orleans, Orleans Co Alleged conspiracy
to murder
“ 14 ....MON ASTERO, PIETRO New Orleans, Orleans Co ..Alleged conspiracy
to murder
“ 14. ...COMSO, JAMES New Orleans, Orleans Co Alleged conspiracy
to murder
“ 14.... G’ U ACCI, TOCCO New Orleans, Orleans Co Alleged conspiracy
to murder
*"Co." should read "Parish” wherever found.
Chronological List of Persons Lynched
G!)
LOUISIANA — Continued
Mar. 14.
“ 14. ...MARCH ESI
... ROMERO , FRAN K New Orleans, Orleans Co. Alleged conspiracy
to murder
A N TO N 10. — New Orleans, Orleans Co Alleged conspiracy
- to murder
14 .. ..TRA HI NA, C II ARLES. — New Orleans, Orleans Co Alleged conspiracy
.. to murder
14 .. ..CO N RI TEZ, LORETTO New Orleans, Orleans Co Alleged conspiracy
„ to murder
14 ...DAJ NETTI, A N TO N 10. New Orleans, Orleans Co Alleged conspiracy
to murder
14 .. ..P ALITZ, MAN UEL New Orleans, Orleans Co Alleged conspiracy
. _ to murder
May 23.... A NDERSO N, WILLI AM, Louisiana State Line Rape
23.. ..A N I)E RSO N, JOHN Louisiana State Line Rape
- 30... HAMPTON, TURNIP Claiborne Larceny
June 2.. ..HUM MEL, SAMUEL Point Cenpee Parish Murder
“ 2. .. CAMPBELL, ALEX Point Cenpee Parish. Accessory to
“ 2.. ..UNKNOWN NEGRO Point Cenpee Parish Accessory to
_ murder
R USS, JOH N Columbia, Caldwell Co Murder
SNOWDEN, Monroe, Ouachita Co Incendiarism
PARKE, JACK. Abitz Springs, Saint Tammany Co Murder
Oct. 20.. “ 30..
* 30..
* 31.. Nov. 4..
■ 4..
* 10..
• 27..
Dec. 17 “ 30..
.UNKNOWN NEGRO Poole’s Landing ...Cause unknown
.SMITH, J. T Morehouse Parish Murder
.FELTON, W. S Morehouse Parish Murder
HAGLE, JOHN Homer, Claiborne Co Unknown cause
..MIXY Many, Sabine Co ..Rape
ELY, JOHN R Holloway, Rapides Co .Murder
UNKNOWN MAN Blackwater, Comcordia Co Murder
Jan.. 7....DESCHARNER, L. N
“ 7. FOSTER, CALVIN ..
“ 9. ...ANDREWS, NATHAN
Mar. 13. ELLA
“ 2S... TILLMAN, JACK
Apr. 6 FOUR NEGROES
“ 23....FREEMA N.
“ 27 ...TRAMP
May 22....A NEGRO.
“ 23 . A NEGRO
June 1 WALKER,
Sept. 6. ..LAURENT, ED
“ 6 MAGLOIRE, GABRIEL
“ 8. ..DIXON, SAM...
* 15 . ..PATTON, JAMES _
Oct. 6. WALKER, BENJAMIN
“ 25 . ...COURT NE Y, JAMES
Nov. 2... .SON AND DAUGHTER
JOHN HASTINGS
“ 5.. ..HASTINGS, JOHN
“ 30. MAGEE, RICHARD
* 30....CARMICHAEL, —
Dec. 29. ...FOX, LEWIS
“ 29....GRIPSON, ADAM
Jan. 6 ....LAF ARGUES, BEN
“ 21. ...LANDRY, ROBERT
“ 21 ....“CHICKEN” GEORGE
“ 21... DAVIS, RICHARD
“ 25... FISHER, WILLIAM
May 12. HALOWAY, ISRAEL
July 6... UNKNOWN NEGROES
Aug. 14 . ..SMITH, MONROE...
Oct. 24. ...TWO NEGROES..
Dec. 28....GREEN, TILLMAN
Jan. 18....UNKN OWN NEGRO
Apr. 23 . ..STAN GATE, SAMUEL
“ 23....CLAXTON, THOMAS
“ 23.. ..HAWKINS, DAVID...
1892
Rayville, Richland Co Murder
Rayville, Richland Co Murder
Caddo Parish Murder
Rayville, Richland Co Attempted murder
Gretna Parish Race prejudice
Fishville Murder
Smithland Murder
Point Conpee Robbery and
murder
Near Monroe, Ouachita Co... Murder
Near Bastrop, Morehouse Co Murder
Sparta, Bienville Co... Alleged rape
Bunkie, Avoyelles Co Threats
Bunkie, Avoyelles Co Threats
Kenner, Jefferson Co Attempted murder
Bonita, Morehouse Co Murder
Concordia Attempted rape
Plaquemine, Iberville Co Attempted rape
OF
Calahoula No offense
Calahoula Murder
Benton, Bossier Co Murder
Benton, Bossier Co Murder
Luling, Saint Charles Co Murder
Luling, Saint Charles Co Murder
1893
Avangeles Parish Murder
St. James Parish. Alleged murder
St. James Parish. Alleged murder
St. James Parish. Alleged murder
Algiers, New' Orleans Co Murder
Napoleonville, Assumption Co Rape
Poplar Head Rape
Springfield, Livingston Co Rape
Knoxpoint Stealing
Columbia, Caldwell Co Attempted assault
1894
Bayou Sara, West Feliciana Suspected incendi-
Co. arism
Tallulah, Madison Co Murder
Tallulah, Madison Co Murder
Tallulah, Madison Co Murder
70 Thirty Years of Lynching in the United States
LOUISIANA — Continued
Apr. 27....CLAXTON, THELL Tallulah, Madison Co Murder
“ 27... HARVEY, SCOTT Tallulah, Madison Co Murder
“ 27....McCLY, JERRY..._ Tallulah, Madison Co Murder
“ 27....CLAXTON, CAMP Tallulah, Madison Co Murder
May 15... WILLIAMS, COAT Pine Grove, Saint Helena Co Murder
June 4....UNDERWOOD, THOMAS Monroe, Ouachita Co Murder
10.... JACOBS, MARK. Bienville, Bienville Co.._ Race prejudice
“ 14. ...DAY, J. H — Monroe, Ouachita Co Suspected arson
“ 28....WHITE, EDWARD— Hudson Attempted rape
July 26.... McCLURE, VANCE New Iberia, Iberia Co Attempted rape
Sept. 9.... WAGGONER, LINK Minden, Webster Co Murder
“ 14... WILLIAMS, ROBERT Concordia Parish. Murder
Dec. 23 ...KING, GEORGE New Orleans, Orleans Co Assault
“ 28 ... SHERMAN, SCOTT. Morehouse Parish No offense
1895
June 24 ....FR Y, JOH N Gretna, Jefferson Co Arson
July 24....BELZAIRE, OVIDE Youngsville, Lafayette Co Race prejudice
Sept. 22.... SMITH, WILLIAM— Hammond, Tangipahoa Co Murder
“ 26.. ..FRANCIS, FELICIAN... _ Near New Orleans, Orleans Co. ..Unknown offense
Jan. 10 “ 12. “ 12 Feb. 29
1896
SMART, A. L.._ Near Monroe, Ouachita Co Murder
MORRIS, MR. AND MRS Near New Orleans, Orleans Co Miscegenation
MORRIS, PATRICK Near New Orleans, Orleans Co Miscegenation
FRANCIS, GILBERT St. Joseph, Tensas Co Robbery and
murder
“ 29 ....FRA NCIS, PA UL St. James, St. James Co Robbery and
assault
“ 29. ...FRANCIS, GILBERT St. James, St. James Co Robbery and
assault
Mar. 16... .LOVE, BIRD Raybille, Richland Co Robbery
“ 23....PIZER, ISAAC Near Shreveport, Caddo Co Attempted rape
“ 24. ...SENEGAL, LOUIS Carencro, Lafayette Co Rape
May 19....DAZZELE, JOSEPH..— St. Bernard Parish Attempted rape
“ 21. ...UNKNOWN NEGRO Bossier Parish Unknown offense
June 12....STARKES, WALTER. Baldwin, St. Mary Co Rape
July 13.. ..PORTER, JAMES Minden, Webster Co Murder
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Monroe, Ouachita Co |
.Murderous assault Murder |
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Rape |
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Attempted rape |
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“ 5... WEIGHTMAN, HIRAM |
.Attempted murder Murder |
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Murder |
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“ 9. ...MARC U SO, ANGELO |
Murder |
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Rape |
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“ 24... .HAWKINS, ALEXANDER Oct. 9 HAMILTON, LOUIS |
Gretna, Jefferson Co |
Arson |
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Dec. 22 BURKE, JERRY |
Clio, Livingston Co.._ |
.Attempted murder |
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Jan. 17 UNKNOWN NEGRO |
1897 |
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Murder |
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Redwood |
Train-wrecking |
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July 13....THOMPSON, ATTICUS “ 24 DAVIS, JACK- |
Forest, West Carroll Co Baldwin, Saint Mary Co |
woman Rape |
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...Murder |
Oct. 1... OLIVER, WM Jefferson
For disobeying
ferry regulations
“ 2 FURRAN, WASH Monroe, Ouachita Co Rape
“ 15 BOLTE, DOUGLAS Quarantine, Plaquemines Co. Running
Dec. 13 ALEXANDER, JAMES Near Plaquemine, Iberville Co. Murder
“ 13 ALEXANDER, CHARLES Near Plaquemine, Iberville Co Murder
“ 13.. ..THOMAS, JOSEPH Near Plaquemine, Iberville Co Murder
1898
Mar. 9 HARRIS, WILLIAM Near New Orleans, Orleans Co Robbery
“ 9....PIGGE, ANDREW Near New Orleans, Orleans Co. Robbery
Apr. 2 BELL, WILLIAM Amite, Tangipahoa Co Murder
“ 26 LEWIS, COLUMBUS Lincoln Parish Resisting arrest
Chronological List of Persons Lynched
71
LOUISIANA — Continued
May 6....BURREL, DENNIS New Orleans, Orleans Co Murder
June 3.... STREET, WILLIAM.... .. Doylinn, Webster Co Attempted murder
“ 15 — NEGRO Oak Ridge, Morehouse Co Assault on officer
Nov. 17.. ..MORRELL, CHARLES Edgard, St. John the Baptist Co Burglary
Dec. 6... HEARN, Benton, Bossier Co... Murder
“ 6.. ..RICHARDSON, Benton, Bossier Co Murder
1899
June 14. ...GRAY, EDWARD St. Peter Race prejudice
July 10 ...JONES, GEORGE._ St. Charles ParislL No offense
“ 10 — SMI T a, 81 Gainsville. Murder
“ 21....CERE NO, JO — Talullah, Madison ( '<> Accomplice in
murder
“ 21....DEFALT A, C H ARLES Talullah, Madison Co Accomplice in
murder
*“ 21 ....DEFALT A, FRANK Talullah, Madison Co Accomplice in
murder
* 21. ...DEFALTA, JO Talullah, Madison Co Accomplice in
murder
“ 21. ... DEFERROC H, S Y Talullah, Madison Co Accomplice in
murder
“ 27.. ..UNKNOWN NEGRO Lindsay, East Feliciana Co. ..Mistaken identity
Aug. 9. ...BROWN, ECHO Amite City Various crimes
“ 11... SINGLETON, MAN Grant Point Attempted rape
Oct. 10. ...L.4 PLACE, BASIL St. James Parish Unknown offense
“ 15. ...SMITH JAMES L Wilson, East Feliciana Co Desperado
Dec. 13.. ..UNKNOWN NEGRO Jones, Morehouse Co Rape
Apr. 22....HUGERLY, JOHN
“ 22 ...AMES, EDWARD
May 15 .. HARRIS, HENRY
June 12 ...COBB, SETH
* 23 ....GILMORE. FRANK
Sept. 1....AMOS, THOMAS J
“ 21....BICKHAM, GEORGE
“ 21....BOWMAN, NATHANIEL.
“ 21. ...ELLIOTT, CHARLES.
* 21....ROLLINS, ISAIAH
Oct. 19.... JOHN SON, NUBRY
Jan. 24— UNKNOWN NEGRO
Feb. 17... .JACKSON, THOMAS
“ 21. VITAL, THOMAS
Mar. 5... DAVIS, WILLIAM
May 4 ...BRIGMAN, FELTON “ 4....JOHNSON, GRANT
June 5— DICKSON, “DIC”.
“ 20... SMITH, PROPHET
* 20. ...MOLAND, F. C
July 15 THOMAS, LOUIS-
“ 19. ..UNKNOWN NEGRO
Sept. 1 WEST, SAM._
Oct. 12. ...MORRIS, WILLIAM
Nov. 24 THOMPSON, FRANK.
Dec. 7 .... POYDRASS, SAM.
Jan. 26....TWO NEGROES.-.
Feb. 20.... BIBB, OLIVER.
Mar. 19_. WOOD WARD, JOHN..
Apr. 1.... FRANKLIN, GEO
“ 10.. ..UNKNOWN NEGRO
May 4 ....SIMS. JOHN
“ 13... DUBLANO, NICHOLAS—
Sept. 8....MOBLEY, WM
Oct. 17... UNKNOWN NEGRO Nov. 26... LAMB, JOSEPH
1900
Allentown Plot to kill whites
Allentown Plot to kill whites
Lena, Rapides Co Attempted rape
Dev ail Bluff Making threats
Livingston Parish Rape
Cheneyville, Rapides Parish. Murder
Ponchatonla, Tangipahoa Parish. Burglary
Ponchatonla, Tangipahoa Farish Burglary
Ponchatonla, Tangipahoa Burglary
Ponchatonla, Tangipahoa Parish Burglary
Near Baton Rouge, East
Baton Rouge Parish Murder
1901
—Doylands Rape
..St. Peter, St. Landry Parish Murder
..Fenton, Jefferson Davis Co Rape
-Blanchard, Caddo Co Rape
..Rodessa, Caddo Co... Rape
..Alden Bridge, Bossier Co For keeping a gamb-
ling house
..Minden, Webster Co Murder
..Bossier, Bossier Co Murder
..Bossier, Bossier Co Murder
..Girard, Richland Co Theft
..Crowley, Acadia Parish Resisting arrest
,.E. La. Parish Attempted rape
..Ball town Rape
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.Sheltering murderer ..Attempted criminal assault .Attempted rape |
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...Calcasieur Parish. |
Murder |
..Francisville Attempted rape
72 Thirty Years of Lynching in the United States
LOUISIANA — Continued
1903
Jan. 19....UNKN0WN WHITE MA N .Locality undetermined Unknown offense
“ 26....MOMAS, JOSEPH.. Luling, Saint Charles Co Murder
Feb. 7. LEE, CORNELIUS Plaquemine, Iberville Co Murderous assault
June 12.. ..DUPREE, FRANK Forest Hill, Rapides Co Murder
“ 24. ...HARRIS, JACK. Concordia Parish Assault on white
man
“ 24 . ..WHITTLE, LAMB Concordia Parish. Assault on white
man
July 26....STURS, JENNIS... Near Shreveport, Caddo Co Murder
Oct. 10. ...KENNY, GEORGE Taylor Town, Bossier Co Threats to kill
Nov. 2....CRADDVELS, JOSEPH Taylor Town, Bossier Co Murder
Dec. 27... CARR, JAMES Millview.__ Murder
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1904
May 8. ...PIPER, FRANK. Alexandria, Rapides Co Making threats
Sept. 18 ....ALLISO N , JOHN McGhees Station Murder
1905
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Apr. 26 - CRAIGHEAD, R |
Homer, Claiborne Co |
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Aug. 12... UNKNOWN NEGRO |
Eros, Jackson Co |
Murder |
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Nov. 20. WILLIAMS, MONSIE |
Tangipahoa, Tangipahoa Co. |
Attempted rape |
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Feb. 24... PAGE, WILTZIE Mar. 18.... CARR, WM |
1906 Bienville, Bienville Co |
Suspected rape Theft |
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“ 28. .. “COTTON” . |
Carrolle, Red River Co |
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May 8. ...WHITNEY, GEO. |
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“ 23 JACKSON, THOS. |
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“ 29 ROGERS, R. T |
Tallulah, Madison Co |
Murder |
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Aug. 26....SHAUFILET, ALFRED Nov. 29 . DOMINGO, ANTON |
Calhoun, Ouachita Co Lafayette, Lafayette Co |
Disorderly conduct |
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1907 |
Mar. 15....WILLIAMS, FLINT Monroe, Ouachita Co.._ Murder
“ 15... GARDNER, HENRY. Monroe, Ouachita Co.. Murder
Apr. 16... STRAUSS, CHAS Bunkie, Avoyelles Co Attempted rape
“ 17. ...KILBOURNE, FRED... Clinton, East Feliciana Co Attempted rape
May 3....EALY, SILAS Bossiers’ City, Bossier Co Rape
June 1 ...JOHNSON, HENRY. .. Echo, Rapides Co... Attempted rape
“ 10... WILSON, JAS Gibsland, Bienville Co Attempted rape
“ 28. ..JACKSON, MATHIAS Near Alexandria, Rapides Co Rape
“ 28. DORANS, RALPH Ruby, Rapides Co — Rape
Dec. 13... UNKNOWN NEGRO Mer Rouge, Morehouse Co.. ..Murderous assault
1908
Feb. 5 . ..MITCHELL, ROBERT.. Oak Grove, West Carroll Co — Murder
June 4 ...COOPER, BIRD Homer, Claiborne Co Murder
July 18... THREE UNNAMED NEGROES. Jonesville, Catahoula Co Suspected arson
Aug. 3... HARRIS, ANDREW Bethany, Caddo Co Attempted rape
Sept. 19.... MILES, JOHN Locality undetermined Robbery and
assault
Oct. 12... HECTOR, NICHOLAS New Iberia, Iberia Co Desperado
1909
July 30. ANTOINE, EMILE Grand Prairie Murder
“ 30 . ..THOMAS, ONEXZIME.. Grand Prairie Murder
Aug. 15.. ..UNNAMED NEGRO Morehouse Parish Bringing suit
against white man
“ 24. WAY, WM Monroe, Ouachita Co Murderous assault
Sept. 8 HILL, HENRY Mangham, Richland Co Rape
Oct. 1....ARD, APS Near Grccnsburg, Saint Helena Co Murder