Nov 14, 2023 | 1890-1899, Alabama, EJI Marker
On December 7, 1896, William Wardley, a Black man, was lynched by an armed mob of white Irondale residents. That day, Mr. Wardley, along with two companions, attempted to purchase apples from a local grocery store. The merchant refused to accept Mr. Wardley’s money because he assumed it was counterfeit….
Nov 14, 2023 | 1890-1899, 1930-1939, Alabama, EJI Marker
The jail in Selma, Alabama, was a repeated site of racial terror lynching and violence that devastated the African American community. In February 1895, police arrested Willy Webb in Waynesville and moved him to the jail in Selma under threat that local whites planned to lynch him. Hours after Mr….
Nov 14, 2023 | 1890-1899, Alabama, EJI Marker
On June 17, 1890, Tom Redmond, an African American man, was killed during a violent confrontation between a group of white and black men in Brookside, a town located 13 miles north of here with iron mines owned by the Sloss-Sheffield Steel and Iron Company. On June 16th, a group…
Nov 14, 2023 | 1880-1889, 1890-1899, 1900-1909, 1910-1919, 1920-1929, 1930-1939, Alabama, EJI Marker
Terror lynching in Tuscaloosa County went unaddressed for decades, devastating the African American community. In December 1889, Bud Wilson was taken from police by a white mob that hung and fatally shot him after he was alleged to have entered the home of a white woman. This lynching followed that…