On December 20, 1918, a White mob seized two Black sisters, Maggie and Alma Howze, and two Black brothers, Major and Andrew Clark, from the Shubuta jail and hanged them from a river bridge one mile north of town. The quadruple lynching, followed twenty-four years later by the lynching of…
On February 2, 1937, a large mob of white people brutally lynched a Black teenager named Wes Johnson near Headland. The mob abducted Mr. Johnson from the Henry County jail in Abbeville and riddled his body with bullets before hanging him from a tree. Mr. Johnson had been arrested two…
In mid-August, 1908, white Springfield residents lynched two African Americans during what became known as the Springfield Race Riot. The mob action was one of many such incidents in the United States which claimed the lives of thousands of African Americans between the Civil War and World War II. The…
On September 27, 1891, a White mob brutally lynched a Black man named Lee Bailey, in DeLand, hanging him and riddling his body with bullets after kidnapping him from the Volusia County Jail. The previous morning, a White woman reported to police that she had been assaulted. Although the woman…
The original Spring Ranche, located two miles south of here on the north side of the Little Blue River, was founded about 1863. James Bainter, the first permanent settler, operated a store and inn for travelers along the Oregon-California Trail. The ranche was burned in 1864 when Lakota Sioux and…
On November 28, 1933, a mob of at least 5,000 white men, women, and youths lynched Lloyd Warner, an 18-year-old Black teenager, in St. Joseph. The mob seized Lloyd from the county jail at 5th and Jules streets, where he was being held on suspicion of a reported assault of…