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 June 19, 1895, a white mob in Abbeville, Mississippi, brutally lynched William Chandler, tying him to a telegraph pole in front of the railroad depot and riddling his body with bullets. Mr. Chandler, a Black man from Alabama who had only been in town for a few days, was…
On Friday, June 16, 1911, a mob of at least 50 white men abducted a Black man named William Bradford from police custody and lynched him near Hickory, Mississippi. The mob riddled Mr. Bradford’s lifeless body with bullets for sport and left it to hang by the roadside – a…
On October 10, 1908, a mob of white people brutally shot, tortured, and lynched Frank Johnson, Dee Dawkins, and William Fielder near Hickory, Mississippi. On October 8, a Black sharecropper named Shep Jones had a disagreement about his work schedule with his white employer. The white planter assaulted Mr. Jones,…
On June 26, 1919, John Hartfield, an African American, was lynched in Ellisville allegedly for raping his White girlfriend. After being apprehended by the county sheriff, he was turned over to a mob. The lynching was announced in advance by newspapers, and thousands of spectators watched as Hartfield was hanged…
On the evening of September 17, 1935, Elwood Higginbottom, a 28-year old African-American tenant farmer, husband, and father to three children, was in custody in the Oxford jail. Four months earlier, landholder Glen Roberts led a posse to Higginbottom’s house over a property dispute. Higginbottom defended himself and fled after…