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{{main|Lynching in the United States}}{{Expand list|date=December 2018}}Names added to this list must be linked to an article about the case. Otherwise they will be deleted. Consider writing an article, if there is none.All names added here must also be entered in Lynching in the United States. This is a sortable table. Click on the heading you want it sorted by. Complex sorts are possible. For example, to produce a list sorted by state, and then alphabetically by county/parish within the state, and if there is more than one in a county, by last name — click first on the Name tabh, then County/Parish tab, then State. One clicks first on the narrowest sort (by last names within a county), then by more general (counties/parishes), and finally the most general (states). Name | Age | Ethnicity | City | County or Parish | State | Year | Accusation | Comment |
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Gilmer, Bill | African-American | Memphis | Shelby | Tennessee | 1879 | Shot attorney Thomas J. Wood | Shot. Gilmer was accused of shooting Wood who had whipped Gilmer for using offensive language near his wife.[1][2] | Thompson, Shedrick (also spelled "Shamrock) | 39 | African-American | rural | Fauquier | Virginia | 1932 | Assault and rape. | Lang, Ed | African-American | Rice | Navarro | Texas | 1916 | "Attacking a young woman." | Taken from a sheriff's posse and hung.[3] | James, John Henry | adult | African-American | Charlottesville (near) | Albemarle | Virginia | 1898 | Rape | Wright, Charles Young, Arthur[4] one other | African-American | Perry | Taylor | Florida | 1922 | Murder of white teacher | Wright was taken from sheriff by a large mob, tortured into confession, and burned at the stake. Arthur Young was later taken from the jail and he and another man were shot and hanged. Several African American community buildings and homes were burned in the Perry race riot. | Scott, Henry | Negro | Bartow | Polk | Florida | 1920, May 8 | He asked a white woman to wait until he had prepared another woman's train berth | Shot[5] | Moore's Ford lynchings (George W. and Mae Murray Dorsey; Roger and Dorothy Malcom) | adults | African-American | Walton | Georgia | 1946 | Stabbing of a white man (Roger Malcom) | Huge investigation. 2003 and 2016 books on this investigation. No one charged. | Hamilton, Eugene | African-American | Jasper | Georgia | 1919 | Convicted by all-white jury of attempting to shoot a white farmer; case before Georgia Court of Appeals. | [6]{{rp>233–234}} | Booker, Paul | African-American | Macon (near) | Bibb | Georgia | 1919, November 3 | Attacking a white woman. | [6]{{rp>241}} | Jameson, Jordan | African-American | Magnolia | Columbia | Arkansas | 1919, November 11 | Killing a sheriff. | [6]{{rp>241}} | Watt, W.W. | White | Newport News | N/A | Virginia | 1900 | Assault | Shot[6] | Walters, Lemuel | African-American | Longview | Gregg | Texas | 1919 | Making "indecent advances" to a white woman. | Holden, George | African-American | Monroe (near) | Ouachita | Louisiana | 1919 | [7]{{rp>18}} | Wilkins, Willie | African-American | Jenkins | Georgia | 1919 | Friend of man believed to have killed lawman. | [7]{{rp>8}} | Ruffin, John | African-American | Jenkins | Georgia | 1919 | Son of man believed to have killed lawman. | [7]{{rp>7–8}} | Ruffin, Henry | African-American | Jenkins | Georgia | 1919 | Son of man believed to have killed lawman. | [7]{{rp>7–8}} | Woods, Eliza | "Colored" | Jackson | Madison | Tennessee | 1886 | Supposedly poisoning her employer. | Taken from the county jail, stripped naked, hung up in the courthouse yard and her body riddled with bullets and left exposed to view.[8] | Gause, Anderson | African-American | Henning | Lauderdale | Tennessee | 1900 | Aided escapees | [6] | Conorly, Huie | 16 | African-American | Bogalusa | Washington | Louisiana | 1884 | Attempted rape | [9] | Pete, Dago | African-American | Tutwiler | Tallahatchie | Mississippi | 1900 | Assaulted colored woman | Killed by negro mob[6] | Nelson, Laura | African-American | Okemah | Okfuskee | Oklahoma | 1911 | Shooting a sheriff. | Gang-raped and lynched together with her son, 14, after trying to protect him during a meat-pilfering investigation.[10] | Fambro, William | African-American | Griffin | Spalding | Georgia | 1903 | Insulted white home | [11] | Banks, Isadore | African-American | Marion | Crittenden | Arkansas | 1954 | Being prosperous | [12] | Unknown male | African-American | Marion | Crittenden | Arkansas | 1930s | Teaching the black children of Marked Tree, Arkansas to read | Burned, sign posted "run niggers run!".[13] | Champion, Tony Kelly, Michael | African-American, White (Irish) | Gainesville | Alachua | Florida | 1891 | Murder | Taken together from jail by mob and hanged.[14] | Ford, Andrew | African-American | Gainesville | Alachua | Florida | 1891 | Beating a man, aiding Harmon Murray | Taken from jail by mob and hanged.[14] | Hinson, Henry | African-American | Micanopy | Alachua | Florida | 1892 | Murder | Hanged.[14] | Unknown | boy | African-American | Waldo | Alachua | Florida | 1892 | Suspicion of burglary and incendiarism | Hanged.[14] | Willis, Charles | African-American | Rochelle | Alachua | Florida | 1894 | "Desperado" | Shot and burned in bed.[14] | Rawls, William | African-American | Newnansville | Alachua | Florida | 1895 | Murder | Hanged and shot.[14] | Daniels, Alfred | African-American | Gainesville | Alachua | Florida | 1896 | Suspicion of arson (barn burning) (no evidence) | Taken by mob on way to jail, hanged and shot.[14] | Price, Manny, Scruggs, Robert | African-American | Newberry | Alachua | Florida | 1902 | Murder, suspected accomplice | Taken by mob on way to jail, hanged and shot.[14] | Clark, Jumbo | African-American | High Springs | Alachua | Florida | 1904 | Assault of 14 year old white girl | Taken by mob on way to jail, hanged and shot.[14] | Long, Jack | White | Newberry | Alachua | Florida | 1908 | Murder | Hanged.[14] | White, Henry | African-American | Campville | Alachua | Florida | 1913 | Found under white woman's bed | Hanged, noose broke, shot.[14] | Newberry Six lynchings (Baskins, Rev. Josh J., Dennis, Bert, Dennis, James, Dennis, Mary, McHenry, Andrew, and Young, Stella) | adults | African-American | Newberry | Alachua | Florida | 1916 | Helping a man who had shot and killed a constable | James Dennis was shot. The others were hanged. Mary Dennis had two children and was pregnant. Stella Young had four children.[14][15] | Wilson, Abraham | African-American | Newberry | Alachua | Florida | 1923 | Cattle stealing | Serving 6 month sentence when taken from jail and hanged.[14][16] | Buddington, George | 55 | African-American | Waldo | Alachua | Florida | 1926 | Attempted to collect debt from a white woman at gunpoint | Mob broke lock on jail, took Buddington out of town and shot him to death.[14][17] | Martin, Albert | 23 | African-American | Port Huron | St. Clair | Michigan | 1889 | Assault and rape | A mob broke into his jail cell with sledge hammers, dragged him from the jail with a noose around his neck, beat and shot him to death, then hanged his corpse from a bridge.[18][19] | Pyszko, Marian | 54 | Polish Jew | Detroit | Wayne | Michigan | 1975 | He was white and was in the wrong place at the wrong time. | Killed by negro youths who wanted a white victim. | Puryear, Richard | African-American | Stroudsburg | Monroe | Pennsylvania | 1894 | Murder | Lynched by a mob after escaping from jail.[18][20] | Campbell, John | Native-American | Mankato | Blue Earth, Nicollet, and Le Sueur | Minnesota | 1865 | Murder | Lynched by a mob after an extrajudicial "trial".[18][21] | Taylor, John | 17 | African-American | Mason | Ingham | Michigan | 1866 | attempted murder of his employer's wife following a wage dispute | John was a former slave, and had been a teenage soldier for the Union. A mob dragged him from a jail, tortured him and hanged him from a tree, and mutilated and decapitated his body; no one was prosecuted. In 2018 a local park was named the "John Taylor Memorial Park" after him.[18][22] | Green, Ernest, and Charlie Lang | 14, 15 | African-American | Shubuta ("hanging bridge") | Clarke | Mississippi | 1942 | Attempted rape. | [23]{{rp>101}} | Johnson, Ed | Adult | African-American | Chattanooga | Hamilton | Tennessee | 1906 | Rape of white woman | Sheriff and two others sentenced to 6 months in jail, three others with 3 months, for abetting the lynching. Only criminal case ever with direct involvement of the U.S. Supreme Court; see United States v. Shipp | Clark, Andrew and Major; Alma and Maggie House | 16, 20, 16, 20 | African-American | Shubuta ("hanging bridge") | Clarke | Mississippi | 1918 | Alleged murder of dentist | Dentist had affairs with both sisters, who were pregnant, likely with his child; the brothers had romantic interest in the girls. After the lynching the babies were seen squirming in their mothers bellies.[24] | Porter, Nevlin | African-American | Starkville | Oktibbeha | Mississippi | 1897 | Arson | [25] | Spencer, Johnson | African-American | Starkville | Oktibbeha | Mississippi | 1897 | Arson | [26] | Clark, James | African-American | Eau Gallie | Brevard | Florida | 1926 | Rape of a white girl | No attempt to verify crime nor identify murderers:Last known lynching in Brevard County[27][28] | Harrington, Levi | African-American | Kansas City | Jackson | Missouri | 1882 | Killing a police officer | Newspapers reported he was innocent, but no one was held accountable for the lynching.[29][30][31][32] | Mingo Jack | 66 | African-American | Eatontown | Monmouth | New Jersey | 1886 | Rape of a white woman | All suspects acquitted.[33][34] | Williams, Elbert | African-American | Brownsville | Haywood | Tennessee | 1940 | Registering to vote and starting an NAACP chapter. | Last lynching in Tennessee.[35] | Brown, Will | 41 | African-American | Omaha | Douglas | Nebraska | 1919 | Rape | Part of the Omaha race riot of 1919 | Outlaw, Wyatt | African-American | Graham | Alamance | North Carolina | 1870 | Prominent local figure (no crime alleged) | 63 indictments, but the North Carolina Legislature, to end their cases, repealed the law they were charged with violating.[36] | Stephens, John W. | 35 | White | Yancyville | Caswell | North Carolina | 1870 | State senator who worked to help freedmen | Ku Klux Klan; no one charged. | McChristian, Perry | White | Grenada | Grenada | Mississippi | 1885 | Murder of white peddler | [37] | Williams, Felix | White | Grenada | Grenada | Mississippi | 1885 | Murder of white peddler | [37] | James, Bartley | African-American | Grenada | Grenada | Mississippi | 1885 | Suspicion of murder of white peddler | [37] | Campbell, John | African-American | Grenada | Grenada | Mississippi | 1885 | Suspicion of murder of white peddler | [37] | Williams, Eugene | African-American | Chicago | Cook | Illinois | 1919 | Racial unrest | A white officer refused to arrest the murderer, and instead arrested a black man who complained about it.[38] | Robinson, Robert | African-American | Chicago | Cook | Illinois | 1919 | He was black, and they wanted to kill a black | Robinson was an Army Reserve veteran.[39] | Ashley, Bob | African-American | Dublin | Laurens | Georgia | 1919 | Hoped to shoot someone else | A group of men thought another man might be inside Ashley's house, so they shot into the house, mortally wounding Ashley.[40] | Wright, Cleo | African-American | Sikeston | Scott | Missouri | 1942 | Home invasion, attempted murder, attempted rape, resisting arrest | Around 100 black people left Sikeston and never returned.[41] | Walters, Lemuel | African-American | Longview | Gregg | Texas | 1919 | Consensual sex with white woman | The report of the affair and the subsequent coverup led to the Longview riots.[42] | Richards, Benny | African-American | Warrenton | Warren | Georgia | 1919 | Accused of murdering his ex-wife and shooting 5 others | 300 men lynched Richards, a farmer.[43][44] | Clay, Lloyd | African-American | Vicksburg | Warren | Mississippi | 1919 | False rape accusation | 1000 men broke through three steel doors to abduct Clay from jail before hanging, shooting, and burning him.[45] | Prince, Henry | African-American | Hawkinsville | Pulaski | Georgia | 1919 | [46] | Waters, Jim | African-American | Johnson | Georgia | 1919 | Rape accusation | Investigation closed in one hour with no witnesses interviewed.[47] | Livingston, Frank | African-American | El Dorado | Union | Arkansas | 1919 | False murder accusation | One of many returning WW I veterans lynched in 1919.[48] | Miller, William | African-American | Brighton | Jefferson | Alabama | 1908 | Labor activist | Jefferson County had the highest number of lynchings in Alabama (29).[49] | Washington, Berry | 72 | African-American | Milan | Dodge and Telfair | Georgia | 1919 | Defended black girls from white home invaders. | Many black homes burned to discourage citizens from coming forward[50] | Chaney, James | 21 | African-American | Philadelphia | Neshoba | Mississippi | 1964 | Civil rights worker | A federal jury in 1967 convicted the sheriff and six others of conspiracy to violate civil rights; they received minor punishment. A state jury in 2005 found the Ku Klux Klan organizer, Edgar Ray Killen, guilty of three counts of manslaughter; he died in prison. National outrage contributed to passage of Civil Rights Act of 1964. | Jordan, James | adult | African-American | Waverly | Sussex | Virginia | 1925 | Married woman "attacked" in her home. | The case and two others helped lead to the Virginia Anti-Lynching Law of 1928, the first state law against lynching.[51][52] | Armwood, George | 23 | African-American | Princess Anne | Somerset | Maryland | 1933 | Attempted assault and rape | Grand jury declined to indict any of the lynchers identified by State Police. Last lynching in Maryland. | Randolph, Sydney | adult | African-American | Gaithersburg | Montgomery | Maryland | 1896 | Killing a white girl | Taken from the jail by a mob.[53] | Taylor, George | African-American | Rolesville | Wake | North Carolina | 1918 | Rape of a white woman | No charges were filed.[54] There is a Web site on this lynching.[55] | Carter, James | African-American | Amherst | Amherst | Virginia | 1902 | Unknown | [56] | Divers, Emmett | adult | African-American | Mexico | Audrain | Missouri | 1893 | Murder of a white woman | "Horrible fury of the mob...500 horsemen." Hung from bridge until dead, taken down and hung a second time from a telegraph pole at the fairground, "at the request of the murdered woman's husband". Body and cabin burned.[57] | Estes, Siles | African-American | Hodgenville | LaRue | Kentucky | 1901 | "Forcing...a 15 year old boy...to commit a crime." | [58] | Lundy, Dick | adult | African-American | Edgefield | Edgefield | South Carolina | 1891 | Murder of son of sheriff | Coroner's jury: "by persons unknown" | Steers, Jennie | adult | African-American | rural area near Shreveport | Caddo | Louisiana | 1903 | Poisoning daughter of a planter | [59]{{rp>70}} | (number > 16)}} | adult men | White | Gainesville | Cooke | Texas | 1862 | Lynching, plus "legal" executions, of Union supporters by Confederate supporters | Many lynched before trial was concluded. Prosecution of perpetrators "half-hearted"; only one convicted.[60][61] | Peterson, John | adult | African-American | Denmark | Bamberg (at the time, Barnwell County) | South Carolina | 1893 | Attack on a white girl | Morris, Frank | adult | African-American | Ferriday | Concordia | Louisiana | 1964 | "Flirting" with white females | [62]{{rp>152}} | Byrd Jr., James | 49 | African-American | Jasper | Jasper | Texas | 1998 | None (white supremacists) | Dragged to death behind a car, until his head hit a culvert. Perpetrators convicted, one executed, one on death row, one to life imprisonment. | Young, Albert (or Arthur) | 21 | African-American | Perry | Taylor | Florida | 1922 | Murder of a white schoolteacher | Tortured, then burned alive | Reeb, James (Unitarian minister) | 38 | White | Selma | Dallas | Alabama | 1965 | Northerner coming to help blacks; ate in "nigger" restaurant. | Denied treatment in Selma for severe blow to head; condition deteriorated on the two-hour trip to a hospital that would treat him (in Birmingham, Alabama); died two days later. Four indicted; three acquitted by all-white juries, fourth fled to Mississippi and never faced trial. Huge national outcry. The Federal Voting Rights Act was passed within four months as a direct result of his lynching and the violent attacks on the Selma to Montgomery marchers. | McClelland, Brandon | 23–24 | African-American | Paris | Lamar | Texas | 2008 | None (white supremacists) | Dragged to death behind car. Prosecutor dropped charges, "lack of evidence". | Reed, Joseph | African-American | Nashville | Davidson | Tennessee | 1875 | Killing a police officer | Taken out of his jail cell by an unmasked mob and hanged on a suspension bridge.[63] | Baker, Frazier B. | 41 | African-American | Lake City | Florence | South Carollna | 1898 | Appointed Postmaster Grand jury did not indict. Since it was a Federal crime (attack on a postmaster) there were 13 Federal indictments; no one convicted | Scott, James T. (Janitor at University of Missouri) | African-American | Columbia | Boone | Missouri | 1923 | Raping the white daughter of a professor. | Before he could stand trial, a mob broke him out of jail and hanged him. The daughter would later identify a different man as her rapist. Jury found perpetrator innocent in 11 minutes. Memorial plaque erected 2016.[64][65] | Smith, Joseph (founder of Mormonism) and brother Hyram Smith | 38, 44 | White | Carthage | Hancock | Illinois | 1844 | Technically, treason against state of Illinois, but lynching was for religious views, especially plural marriage/polygamy. | In jail awaiting trial. Five men were tried and acquitted. | McIntosh, Francis | Adult | African-American | St. Louis | N/A (independent city) | Missouri | 1836 | Complicated, but culminating in death of one constable/deputy sheriff and wounding another | Burned alive. Lynching had broad local support. Reported on by abolitionist editor Elijah Lovejoy, who was soon lynched himself. | White, George | Adult | African-American | Wilmington | New Castle | Delaware | 1903 | Assaulting teenage girl and leaving her to die | Taken from county workhouse and burned alive. No one was prosecuted. | Walker, Zachariah | 20-24 | African-American | Coatesville | Chester | Pennsylvania | 1911 | Killing of a police officer, possibly in self-defense | Taken from hospital room and burned alive. Fifteen men and teenage boys were indicted, but all were acquitted at trials.[66] | Moss, Tom | Adult | African-American | Memphis | Shelby | Tennessee | 1892 | Complaint from competing white grocery store owner. | So-called Curve Riot (not a riot). Reported on by Ida B. Wells, whose newspaper was destroyed and had to leave the state.[67] | McDowell, Calvin | Adult | African-American | Memphis | Shelby | Tennessee | 1892 | Complaint from competing white grocery store owner. | So-called Curve Riot (not a riot). Reported on by Ida B. Wells, whose newspaper was destroyed and had to leave the state.[67] | Clayton, Elias, Elmer Jackson, and Isaac McGhie | 20-23 | African-American | Duluth | St. Louis | Minnesota | 1920 | Rape of a teenage girl | Taken from jail by mob, given mock trials, beaten and hanged from light-post. No one was prosecuted. | Stewart, Will | Adult | African-American | Memphis | Shelby | Tennessee | 1892 | Complaint from competing white grocery store owner. | So-called Curve Riot (not a riot). Reported on by Ida B. Wells, whose newspaper was destroyed and had to leave the state.[67] | Holmes, John, and Thomas Thurmond | 29 27 | White | San Jose | Santa Clara | California | 1933 | Kidnapping and murder of department store heir Brooke Hart | An estimated 10,000 people witnessed the lynching. California Governor James Rolph called the act "a fine lesson for the whole nation."[68] | Lovejoy, Elijah | 35 | White | Alton | Madison | Illinois | 1837 | Abolitionist newspaper editor and publisher | Had moved to Alton to escape violence in St. Louis. Four successive printing presses destroyed. "Not guilty" verdict; jury foreman member of mob.[69] | Miller, Amos | 23 | African-American | Franklin | Williamson | Tennessee | 1888 | Assaulting a white woman | Taken from the courthouse during his trial and lynched on the balcony railings.[70] | Taylor, Jim | African-American | Franklin | Williamson | Tennessee | 1891 | Shooting a policeman | Taken from his jail cell by a mob and lynched on Murfreesboro Road.[71] | Higginbotham, Elwood | 28 | African-American | Oxford | Lafayette | Mississippi | 1935 | Killed in self-defense a white man that attacked him after he complained about the white man's cattle running over his field. | Killed when jury did not bring back guilty verdict promptly. Widow and extended family immediately left Mississippi.[72] | Thomas, Wade | African-American | Jonesboro | Craighead | Arkansas | 1920 | Killing a policeman | Taken from jail by a mom, hung, then riddled with bullets.[73] | Patton, Nelse | African-American | Oxford | Lafayette | Mississippi | 1908 | Killing a white woman | Prominent attorney and former U.S. Senator William V. Sullivan, in his own words, "led the mob...and I'm proud of it".[74][75][76] | Jones, David | African-American | Nashville | Davidson | Tennessee | 1872 | Murdering Henry Murray. | Taken out of his prison cell and lynched by a mob on the public square.[77][78] | Grizzard, Ephraim | African-American | Nashville | Davidson | Tennessee | 1892 | Assaulting two white girls in Goodlettsville. | Taken out of his prison cell and lynched on a bridge in Downtown Nashville in front of 10,000 onlookers. Later taken back to Goodlettsville.[79] | Smith, Samuel | 15 | African-American | Nolensville | Williamson | Tennessee | 1924 | Stealing spark plugs in a garage. | Taken out of his hospital room in Nashville and lynched by a mob of masked men where he was first caught.[80] | 11 Italian Americans | Italian-American | New Orleans | Orleans | Louisiana | 1891 | Killing of police chief | 3 had been acquitted; 3 had a mistrial; 5 never tried. Lynching organized by local leaders, including future mayor Walter C. Flower and future governor John M. Parker. Grand jury brought no charges. | Albano, Angelo and Castenge Ficarotta | Italian | Tampa | Hillsborough County | Florida | 1910 | Complicity in a shooting | Villarosa, Federico | Italian | Vicksburg | Warren County | Mississippi | 1886 | Assault of a white girl | Saladino, Lorenzo; Arena, Salvatore; Giuseppe Venturella | 33-36, 27, 48 | Italian | Hahnville | St. Charles Parish | Louisiana | 1896 | Murder | Saladino was accused of murdering a wealthy merchant. Arena and Venturella happened to have been in the same prison, accused of a different murder. All rounded up together and lynched to "teach the lawless Italians a salutary lesson." After the lynching, another person confessed to the murder for which Arena and Venturella had been lynched. | DiFatta brothers (Francesco, Carlo, and Giuseppe); Cerami, Giovanni; Rosario Fiducia | Italian | Tallulah | Madison Parish | Louisiana | 1899 | Shooting a doctor | Sicilian immigrant grocery store owners, the DiFatta brothers, quarreled with a local doctor. The doctor fired his pistol at brother Carlo and was immediately shot and injured by brother Giuseppe. Sicilian immigrants Cerami and Fiducia were not involved in the dispute and had simply been nearby when the lynching occurred; they were rounded up and lynched alongside the DiFatta brothers because they were Italian. | Lewis, Sanford | African-American | Fort Smith | Sebastian | Arkansas | 1912 | Shooting a constable | Five policemen fined $100 each for "nonfeasance of office". Entire police force fired. Mayor voted out. Man charged with lynching acquitted.[81] | Phifer, Miles (or Relius) | African-American | Montgomery | Montgomery | Alabama | 1919 | Assault of a white woman | Was wearing military uniform[82] | Temple, Will | African-American | Montgomery | Montgomery | Alabama | 1919 | Killing a police officer | [82] | Crosky, Robert | African-American | Montgomery | Montgomery | Alabama | 1919 | Assault of a white woman | [82] | Heath, John | 28 | White | Bisbee | Cochise | Arizona Territory | 1884 | Accessory to robbery | Mob unsatisfied with lenient sentence | Williams, Matthew | 23 | African-American | Salisbury | Wicomico | Maryland | 1931 | Killing his employer | [114]{{rp>9–10}} | Walker, David, his wife and four children | African-American | Hickman | Fulton | Kentucky | 1908 | Using inappropriate language with a white woman | [83] | Grant, George | African-American | Darien | McIntosh | Georgia | 1930 | [114]{{rp>10}} | Gunn, Raymond | African-American | Maryville | Nodaway | Missouri | 1931 | [114]{{rp>10}} | Lowry, Henry ("a negro sharecropper") | African-American | Nodena | Mississippi | Arkansas | 1921 | Asked for his wages | [84]{{rp>3}} | Hose, Sam | about 24 | African-American | Noonan | Coweta | Georgia | 1899 | Killed his white employer in self-defense. Accusations of rape added to incite lynching. | Body parts for sale in a store. Widely publicized and privately investigated. | Hartfield, John | African-American | Ellisville | Jones | Mississippi | 1919 | Assaulting a young white woman | [85] Ten thousand people answered the paper's invitation and they were addressed by the District Attorney, T. W. Wilson, while the lynching was going on."[84]{{rp>9}} | Richardson, Bunk | African-American | Gadsden | Etowah | Alabama | 1906 | Sentenced to death without being charged with any crime; Governor commuted it to life imprisonment. | Mob seized him from the jail. | Heflin, Lee | White | Fauquier | Virginia | 1892 | Convicted murderer | Seized from police when they were trying to move him to a safer location.[121] | Wise, Mrs. | African-American | Frankfort (Frankford?) | Virginia (West Virginia?) | 1931 | Objected to her daughter being taken out for "rides" with white Klansmen. | [84]{{rp>8}} | Tillis, Dave | African-American | Crockett | Houston | Texas | 1932 | "Demanded an accounting from his landlord. Charged with 'entering the bedroom of a white woman'". | [84]{{rp>4–5}} | Hughes, George | African-American | Sherman | Grayson | Texas | 1930 | Pled guilty to criminal assault. | Courthouse stormed (during trial), burned down with Hughes locked in vault, fire hoses cut. Body then dragged behind car and hung, and fire lit under it. Followed by riot and destruction of black businesses. Two persons received two-year sentences for violence.[86] | Shorter, William | 17 | African-American | Winchester | N/A (independent city) | Virginia | 1893 | Assault on a white woman | [121] | Dye, Joseph | White | Fauquier | Virginia | 1892 | Convicted murderer | Seized from police when they were trying to move him to a safer location.[121] | Anderson, Orion | African-American | Leesburg | Loudoun | Virginia | 1889 | Hung from a derrick[121] | Bromley, H. | Heathsville | Northumberland | Virginia | 1955 | [121] | Thompson, Allie | African-American | Culpeper | Culpeper | Virginia | 1918 | Assault | [121] | Craven, Charles | African-American | Leesburg | Loudoun | Virginia | 1902 | Assault | [121] | Thompson, Benjamin | 20 | African-American | Alexandria | N/A (independent city) | Virginia | 1899 | Hung from a lamppost at Cameron and Lee Sts., site of several lynchings.[121] | Parker, John | African-American | Conway | Faulkner | Arkansas | 1931 | Stealing some peaches | [84]{{rp>4}} | McCoy, Joseph | 20 | African-American | Alexandria | N/A (independent city) | Virginia | 1897 | Assault on a young girl | [87] | Fletcher, Magruder | African-American | Tasley | Accomack | Virginia | 1889 | [87] | Adam | African-American | Tampa | Hillsborough | Florida | 1859 | A white man was murdered; "in keeping with local custom, a slave man was selected to be killed in retribution". State Supreme Court overturned conviction. | [88]{{rp>269}} | Abram|Smith}}[89] | 19 | African-American | Marion | Grant | Indiana | 1930 | Accessory to homicide during holdup of white man; rumors of rape | No charges filed. | Joe|Coe}} ("A married man with two children") | African-American | Omaha | Douglas | Nebraska | 1891 | Assault on a white girl of 5 | The Governor and the Sheriff tried unsuccessfully to quiet the crowd in front of the Courthouse. Pieces of the lynching rope were sold as souvenirs. Despite 16 wounds to his body and three broken vertebrae, Coroner said he died of "fright". Grand jury declined to indict. | Till, Emmett | 14 | African-American | Money | LeFlore | Mississippi | 1955 | Flirting with white woman | Beaten and mutilated before shooting him in the head and sinking his body in the Tallahatchie River. Perpetrators acquitted by all-white jury, then openly admitted they did it. Historical markers shot and defaced 2006-2018.[90] | Anthony|Crawford|Lynching of Anthony Crawford}}[91] | 51 | African-American | Abbeville | Abbeville | South Carolina | 1916 | Offensive language | Coroner's jury: "persons unknown" | Charles|Wright|nolink=1}}[89]{{verify source|date=February 2019}} | 21 | African-American | Rosewood | Levy | Florida | 1930 | Homicide during holdup of white man; rumors of rape | No charges filed. | Claude|Neal}} | African-American | Greenwood | Jackson | Florida | 1934 | Rape and murder of 19 year old white female | Lynchers said he "didn't deserve a trial". Castrated, forced to consume his genitals, stabbed, burned with hot irons, toes and fingers removed, hung, body tied behind automobile. Followed by Marianna riots. Important case in helping to bring lynching to an end. | Dick|Rowland}} (attempted lynching) | 19 | African-American | Tulsa | Tulsa | Oklahoma | 1921 | Sexual assault on white girl | Conflict between would-be lynchers and defenders led to the Tulsa Race Riot. | Ell|Persons}} | about 50 | African-American | Memphis | Shelby | Tennessee | 1917 | Raping and killing a white girl | No charges filed. | Fred|Rochelle}} | 16 | African-American | Bartow | Polk | Florida | 1901 | Murder and rape of a white woman | Doused with kerosene and burned. Special train from Lakeland to see the "barbecue". | Henry|Smith|Henry Smith (lynching victim)}} | 17 | African-American | Paris | Lamar | Texas | 1893 | Kidnapping and murder of white girl; Smith confessed under duress. | Tortured, burned with hot irons, doused in oil and set on fire; his remains were sold as souvenirs. | McIlherron, Jim[92] | African-American | Estill Springs | Franklin | Tennessee | 1918 | Killing two whites | Tortured, then burned alive. Spectators came from as far as 50 miles away. Postcards sold. "No information sufficient to indict." | Jesse|Washington|Lynching of Jesse Washington}}[93] | 17 | African-American | Waco | McLennan | Texas | 1916 | Murder; Washington confessed and a jury found him guilty. | [93]{{rp>5}} | Carter, John[94] | African-American | Little Rock | Pulaski | Arkansas | 1927 | Attacking a white woman and her mother | No charges filed; "mob" responsible. | July|Perry|nolink=1}}[95] | 52 | African-American | Ocoee | Orange | Florida | 1920 | Sign on body: "This is what we do to niggers that vote." | Prosperous Negro farmer. See Ocoee massacre. | Leo|Frank}} | 31 | Jewish | Marietta | Cobb | Georgia | 1915 | Killing a 13 year old girl | No charges filed; posthumously pardoned. | Mary|Turner}}[96] | 18 | African-American | Bridge joining Brooks County and Lowndes County, Georgia | Georgia | 1918 | Publicly opposed and threatened legal action against whites who had murdered her husband, unfairly accused (according to her) of killing an abusive landowner. | "Hung her upside down from a tree, doused her in gasoline and motor oil and set her on fire. Turner was still alive when a member of the mob split her abdomen open with a knife and her unborn child fell on the ground. The baby was stomped and crushed as it fell to the ground. Turner's body was riddled with hundreds of bullets." | Hayes|Turner}} | 25 | African-American | Morven[97] | Brooks | Georgia | 1918 | Accused of helping kill an abusive landowner. | Wife Mary killed next day for defending him. | Reuben|Stacey (also found as Rubin Stacy)|nolink=1}} | 37 | African-American | Fort Lauderdale | Broward | Florida | 1935 | Assault with a knife | Law enforcement officer; grand jury refused to indict. | Carter, Sam | African-American | Rosewood | Levy | Florida | 1923 | Assault, rape, and robbery of a white woman | See Rosewood massacre. Tortured. Shot before being hung. See Rosewood massacre. | Pitts, Slab | African-American | Toyah | Reeves | Texas | 1906 | Living with a white woman | Dragged to death before being hung. | Shipp, Thomas[98][99][100] | 18 | African-American | Marion | Grant | Indiana | 1930 | Accessory to homicide during holdup of white man; rumors of rape | No charges filed. | Willie|Earle|Lynching of Willie Earle}} | 24 | African-American | Greenville | Greenville | South Carolina | 1947 | Killing of taxi driver | 31 suspects charged; all acquitted. | Willie James|Howard}}[101] | 15 | African-American | Live Oak | Suwannee | Florida | 1944 | Sending Christmas card with "a note expressing his affection" to a white girl. | Forced to jump to his death in the Suwanee River. Grand jury refused to indict. | Ah Wing, Dr. Chee Long "Gene" Tong, Chang Wan, Leong Quai, Ah Long, Wan Foo, Day Kee, Ah Waa, Ho Hing, Lo Hey, Ah Won, Wing Chee, Wong Chin | Chinese | Los Angeles | Los Angeles | California | 1871 | None | Killed in retaliation for the homicide of a rancher. See: Chinese massacre of 1871 | Parker, Mack Charles | 22 or 23 | African-American | Bridge over Pearl River between Mississippi and Louisiana | Pearl River | Mississippi | 1959 | Rape and kidnapping of a white woman; charges possibly fabricated. | No one indicted. | |
Donald, Michael | 19 | African-American | Mobile | Mobile | Alabama | 1981 | None (Klan looked to kill a black man because killer of white policeman got mistrial). | Henry Hay executed in the electric chair. James Knowles and an accomplice sentenced to life in prison. Civil suit against United Klans of America caused their bankruptcy. | |
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Would-Be Murderer Strung Up at Franklin. His Most Atrocious Assault on an Officer Avenged. The Body Dangling by the Roadside on the Outskirts. 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David Jones, the Murderer of Murray, Taken from the Jail by a Mob. Murderer Offers Resistance, and is Shot Twice. Afterwards Taken to the Public Square and Hanged in Front of the Station House. The Hanging Witnesses by Immense Crowd of Excited Citizens. Efforts of the Mayor to Restore Quiet. Gov. Brown Makes an Appeal in Behalf of Law and Order.|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/80864273/?terms=lynching|accessdate=May 3, 2018|work=Nashville Union and American|date=March 26, 2018|page=4|via=Newspapers.com|registration=yes}} 78. ^{{cite news|title=The Nashville Lynching Case.|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/349733432/?terms=%22nashville%2Blynching%22|accessdate=May 3, 2018|work=The Chicago Tribune|date=March 28, 1872|page=3|via=Newspapers.com|registration=yes}} 79. ^{{cite news|title=Finally Successful. An Attempt to Lynch Negroes At Nashville, Tenn., Successfully Resisted. The Government Takes Charge of the Jail Forces--One of the Lynchers Killed. 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{{Lynching in the United States}} 7 : Lynching victims in the United States|Legal history of the United States|Racially motivated violence in the United States|White supremacy in the United States|Racially motivated violence against African Americans|Lynching deaths in the United States|Lists of African-American people |