Also known as Juanita or Josefa Loaiza, was a Mexican-American woman who was executed by hanging in Downieville, California, on July 5, 1851. She was found guilty of murdering a local miner, Frederick Cannon. She is known to be the first and only woman to be hanged in California. …
Late on the night of October 26, 1924, a mob of 200 masked white men from Floyd County kidnapped and brutally lynched a Black man named Frederick “Kid” Shannon in Wayland. Mr. Shannon, a 28-year-old musician, had been arrested and jailed in Wayland after being accused of killing a white…
Mobs of white people brutally lynched two Black men, Louis Senegal and Antoine Domingue, within an 11-year period in Carencro, Louisiana. On March 24, 1896, 500 white men abducted Mr. Senegal, who was also referred to as Louis Sinclair, from the Carencro jail and hanged him to death. Police left…
During the summer and fall of 1869, a mob of white people in Orange County terrorized and lynched three Black family members: Washington Morrow, Thomas Jefferson Morrow and Daniel Morrow. When three barns belonging to white men burned down in July, local white residents pointed suspicion at the Morrows, a…
On April 14, 1932, a white mob terrorized and lynched a young Black man named Percy Berry near Havelock. Mr. Berry, a Craven County native, was one of eight children and earned a living as a laborer. On the night of April 14, he was fishing in Hancock Creek with…
On January 20, 1919, a violent mob burned an African American man named Bragg Williams to death on a stake. The members of the mob who carried out this extrajudicial execution were never punished. Dec. 2, 1918, Annie Wells and her four-year-old son Curtis were beaten to death, their bodies…