List of lynching victims in the United States

This is a list of lynching victims in the United States. Lynching is the summary execution of an offender, or supposed offender, without due process of law, by a self-constituted and irresponsible body of men. Lynchings in the United States rose in number after the American Civil War in the late 19th century, following the emancipation of slaves; they declined in the 1920s. Nearly 3,500 African Americans and 1,300 whites were lynched in the United States between 1882 and 1968.[1] Most lynchings were of African-American men in the Southern United States, but women were also lynched. More than 73 percent of lynchings in the post–Civil War period occurred in the Southern states.[2] White lynchings of black people also occurred in the Midwestern United States and the Border States, especially during the 20th-century Great Migration of black people out of the Southern United States. The purpose was to enforce white supremacy and intimidate black people through racial terrorism.

The body of John Heath, lynched in Tombstone, Arizona, on February 22, 1884, following the Bisbee massacre

According to Ida B. Wells and the Tuskegee University, most lynching victims were accused of murder or attempted murder. Rape or attempted rape was the second most common accusation; such accusations were often pretexts for lynching black people who violated Jim Crow etiquette or engaged in economic competition with white people. Sociologist Arthur F. Raper investigated one hundred lynchings during the 1930s and estimated that approximately one-third of the victims were falsely accused.[3][4]

On a per capita basis, lynchings were also common in California and the Old West, especially of Latinos, although they represented less than 10% of the national total. Native Americans, Asian Americans and Italian-Americans[5][6] were also lynched.[7] Other ethnicities, including Finnish-Americans[8] and German-Americans[9] were also lynched occasionally.

19th century

Name	Age	Ethnicity	City	County or Parish	State	Year	Accusation	Comment
McIntosh, Francis	26	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.
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.[10]
Smith, Joseph (founder of Mormonism) and brother Hyrum 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.
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.	Mob broke into jail where he was awaiting a new trial and hanged him. Defended by Ossian Hart.[11]^:269
Great Hanging at Gainesville (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.[12][13]
Campbell, John (Jack)		Mixed race (White/Dakota)[14]	Mankato	Blue Earth, Nicollet, and Le Sueur	Minnesota	1865	Double murder	Lynched by a mob after an extrajudicial "trial".[15][16]
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.[15][17]
McLain, Tom	unknown	African-American	Coffeeville	Yalobusha	Mississippi	1868	Alleged murder of white overseer.	A masked mob broke into the jail cell with sledge hammers, dragged McLain and Gilbert Quinn from the jail and hung both from a gum tree with the same rope.[18][19]
Quinn, Gilbert	unknown	African-American	Coffeeville	Yalobusha	Mississippi	1868	Alleged accomplice to murder of white overseer.	A masked mob broke into the jail cell with sledge hammers, dragged McLain and Gilbert Quinn from the jail and hung both from a gum tree with the same rope.[18][19]
Outlaw, Wyatt	49-50	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.[20]
Stephens, John W.	35	White	Yancyville	Caswell	North Carolina	1870	State senator who worked to help freedmen	Ku Klux Klan; no one charged.
Ah Wing and at least 15 others		Chinese	Los Angeles	Los Angeles	California	1871	None	Killed in retaliation for the homicide of a rancher. See: Chinese massacre of 1871
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.[21][22]
Randolph, John		African-American	Osceola	Mississippi	Arkansas	1875		Lynched after allegedly confessing to murder of white man[23]
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.[24]
Five un-named men		African-American	Mount Vernon	Posey	Indiana	1878	Accused of rape	Largest recorded lynching in Indiana. No-one was ever indicted.
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.[25][26]
Porter, Nevlin		African-American	Starkville	Oktibbeha	Mississippi	1879	Arson	[27]
Spencer, Johnson		African-American	Starkville	Oktibbeha	Mississippi	1879	Arson	[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]
Heath, John	28	White	Bisbee	Cochise	Arizona Territory	1884	Accessory to robbery	Mob unsatisfied with lenient sentence
Conorly, Huie	16	African-American	Bogalusa	Washington	Louisiana	1884	Attempted rape	[33]
McChristian, Perry		White	Grenada	Grenada	Mississippi	1885	Murder of white peddler	[34]
Williams, Felix		White	Grenada	Grenada	Mississippi	1885	Murder of white peddler	[34]
James, Bartley		African-American	Grenada	Grenada	Mississippi	1885	Suspicion of murder of white peddler	[34]
Campbell, John		African-American	Grenada	Grenada	Mississippi	1885	Suspicion of murder of white peddler	[34]
Mingo Jack	66	African-American	Eatontown	Monmouth	New Jersey	1886	Rape of a white woman	All suspects acquitted.[35][36]
Woods, Eliza		"Colored"	Jackson	Madison	Tennessee	1886	Supposedly poisoning her employer.	Taken from the county jail, stripped naked, hanged in the courthouse yard and her body riddled with bullets and left exposed to view.[37]
Villarosa, Federico (Francesco Valoto)		Italian	Vicksburg	Warren County	Mississippi	1886	Attempted rape of a 10-year-old white girl	Hanged from a tree by a mob despite the efforts of the sheriff and state militia.[38]
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.[39]
Fletcher, Magruder	about 35	African-American	Tasley	Accomack	Virginia	1889	Raping a white woman in her home[40]	[41]
Anderson, Orion	14	African-American	Leesburg	Loudoun	Virginia	1889	"Scaring a teenaged white girl"[42]	Hanged from a derrick[41]
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.[15][43]
Meadows, George		African-American	N/A	Jefferson	Alabama	1889	Rape and murder	Lynched despite calls from his accuser that she couldn't confirm he was guilty. Sheriff eventually determined he had been innocent, and another man was later arrested.
Williams, Willie		African-American	Kosse	Limestone	Texas	1890	Rape of an 8 year old white girl	Taken from his jail cell by a mob, hanged, and shot multiple times.[44]
Taylor, Jim		African-American	Franklin	Williamson	Tennessee	1891	Shooting a policeman	Taken from his jail cell by a mob and lynched on Murfreesboro Road.[45]
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.
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.
Lundy, Dick	Adult	African-American	Edgefield	Edgefield	South Carolina	1891	Murder of son of sheriff	Coroner's jury: "by persons unknown"
Champion, Tony Kelly, Michael		African-American, White (Irish)	Gainesville	Alachua	Florida	1891	Murder	Taken together from jail by mob and hanged.[46]
Ford, Andrew		African-American	Gainesville	Alachua	Florida	1891	Beating a man, aiding Harmon Murray	Taken from jail by mob and hanged.[46]
Hinson, Henry		African-American	Micanopy	Alachua	Florida	1892	Murder	Hanged.[46]
Unknown	boy	African-American	Waldo	Alachua	Florida	1892	Suspicion of burglary and incendiarism	Hanged.[46]
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.[47]
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.[47]
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.[47]
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.[48]
Heflin, Lee		White		Fauquier	Virginia	1892	Convicted murderer	Seized from police when they were trying to move him to a safer location.[41]
Dye, Joseph		White		Fauquier	Virginia	1892	Convicted murderer	Seized from police when they were trying to move him to a safer location.[41]
Shorter, William	17	African-American	Winchester	N/A (independent city)	Virginia	1893	Assault on a white woman	[41]
Henry Smith	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.
Peterson, John	Adult	African-American	Denmark	Bamberg (at the time, Barnwell County)	South Carolina	1893	Attack on a white girl
Willis, Charles		African-American	Rochelle	Alachua	Florida	1894	Being a "desperado"[49]	Shot and burned in bed.[46]
Puryear, Richard		African-American	Stroudsburg	Monroe	Pennsylvania	1894	Murder	Lynched by a mob after escaping from jail.[15][50]
Rawls, William		African-American	Newnansville	Alachua	Florida	1895	Murder	Hanged and shot.[46]
Divers, Emmett	Adult	African-American	Fulton	Callaway	Missouri	1895	Murder of a white woman; Jennie E. Cain	"Horrible fury of the mob...500 horsemen." Hanged from bridge until dead, taken down and hanged a second time from a telegraph pole at the fairground, "at the request of the murdered woman's husband, John William Cain". Body and cabin burned.[51]
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.[52]
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.[46]
Randolph, Sydney	Adult	African-American	Gaithersburg	Montgomery	Maryland	1896	Killing a white girl	Taken from the jail by a mob.[53]
McCoy, Joseph	20	African-American	Alexandria	N/A (independent city)	Virginia	1897	Assault on a young girl	[41]
James, John Henry	Adult	African-American	Charlottesville (near)	Albemarle	Virginia	1898	Rape	Hanged and shot by a mob.
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
Thompson, Benjamin	20	African-American	Alexandria	N/A (independent city)	Virginia	1899	Attempting to criminally assault an eight year-old white girl[42]	hanged from a lamppost at Cameron and Lee Sts., site of several lynchings.[41]
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 Carlo and was immediately shot and injured by 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.[54]
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.

20th century

Name	Age	Ethnicity	City	County or Parish	State	Year	Accusation	Comment
Watt, W.W.		White	Newport News	N/A	Virginia	1900	Assault	Shot[55]
Gause, Anderson		African-American	Henning	Lauderdale	Tennessee	1900	Aided escapees	[55]
Pete, Dago		African-American	Tutwiler	Tallahatchie	Mississippi	1900	Assaulted colored woman	Killed by African American mob[55]
Estes, Siles		African-American	Hodgenville	LaRue	Kentucky	1901	"Forcing...a 15 year old boy...to commit a crime."	[56]
Carter, George		African-American	Paris	Bourbon	Kentucky	1901	"Assaulting a white woman."	[57]
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".
Price, Manny, Scruggs, Robert		African-American	Newberry	Alachua	Florida	1902	Murder, suspected accomplice	Taken by mob on way to jail, hanged and shot.[46]
Carter, James		African-American	Amherst	Amherst	Virginia	1902	Unknown	[58]
Craven, Charles		African-American	Leesburg	Loudoun	Virginia	1902	Assault	[41]
Steers, Jennie	Adult	African-American	rural area near Shreveport	Caddo	Louisiana	1903	Poisoning daughter of a planter	[59]^:70
Fambro, William		African-American	Griffin	Spalding	Georgia	1903	Insulted white home	[60]
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.
Jarvis, Washington	25	White	Madison	Madison	Florida	1903	Accused of murdering his cousin.	[61]
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.[46]
Holbert, Luther, unnamed female		African-American	Doddsville	Sunflower	Mississippi	1904	Murder of a white landowner	Tortured and burned alive, crowd of some 600 attended the lynching.[62]
Cato, Will Reed, Paul		African-American	Statesboro	Bulloch	Georgia	1904	Murder of five members of a family	Seized by mob from courthouse after conviction for murder, chained to stump and burned
Johnson, Ed	23-24	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
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.
Pitts, Slab		African-American	Toyah	Reeves	Texas	1906	Living with a white woman	Dragged to death before being hanged.[63]
Long, Jack		White	Newberry	Alachua	Florida	1908	Murder	Hanged.[46]
Miller, William		African-American	Brighton	Jefferson	Alabama	1908	Labor activist	Jefferson County had the highest number of lynchings in Alabama (29).[64]
Riley, Joseph and Jones, Virgil, Robert and Thomas		African-American	Russellville	Logan County	Kentucky	1908	Rufus Browder, a friend and lodge lodge brother of the group, killed his employer with an axe after being shot in the chest. Browder was arrested and sent to Louisville. The four victims had expressed approval of Browder's action and were jailed for disturbing the peace after holding a meeting.	On August 1, 1908 a mob demanded release of the men, and lynched them from a tree. A note pinned to one of the men read, "Let this be a warning to you niggers to let white people alone or you will go the same way."[65]
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".[66][67][68]
Walker, David, his wife and four children		African-American	Hickman	Fulton	Kentucky	1908	Using inappropriate language with a white woman	[69]
Wades, Jake		African-American	Lakeland	Polk	Florida	1909	Accused of rape	Transported from Gainesville to Lakeland to be identified and lynched[70]
Miller Jim	47	White	Pontotoc	Pontotoc	Oklahoma	1909	Suspicion of murder of a lawman	[71]
Burrell, Berry	38	White	Pontotoc	Pontotoc	Oklahoma	1909	Suspicion of murder of a lawman	[71]
Allen, Joseph	43	White	Pontotoc	Pontotoc	Oklahoma	1909	Suspicion of murder of a lawman	[71]
West, Jesse	46	White	Pontotoc	Pontotoc	Oklahoma	1909	Suspicion of murder of a lawman	[71]
Albano, Angelo and Castenge Ficarotta		Italian	Tampa	Hillsborough County	Florida	1910	Complicity in a shooting	[72]
William Bradford		African-American	Chunky	Newton	Mississippi	1911	Accused of attempted murder of two white farmers	[73]
Nelson, Laura		African-American	Okemah	Okfuskee	Oklahoma	1911	Killing a Deputy sheriff.	Gang-raped and lynched together with her son, 14, after trying to protect him during a meat-pilfering investigation.[74]
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.[75]
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.[76]
White, Henry		African-American	Campville	Alachua	Florida	1913	Found under white woman's bed	Hanged, noose broke, shot.[46]
Williams, Andrew	35	African-American	Houston	Chickasaw	Mississippi	1913	Murder of John C. Williams, Wife of the Deputy Chancery Clerk	Dragged from jail and hanged at a nearby tree, upon the alleged statement of two African-American women;[77] the women who made the statement were arrested the next day for making a false statement, according to one source[78] and/or disappeared.[79] The day after Williams was lynched, a second African-American, named in different reports as 'Divel Rucker', 'Dizell Rucker' and 'Dibrell Tucker; was lynched and burned at the stake on the assumption that he, not Williams, was the actual murdered[80][81]
Rucker, Divel	20	African-American	Houston	Chickasaw	Mississippi	1913	Murder of John C. Williams, Wife of the Deputy Chancery Clerk	The day after Andrew Williams was lynched by hanging for this murder, Rucker was presumed by the mob to be the actual murderer and, allegedly, confessed to the crime. He was tied to an iron stake, covered with tar, and set afire. The family of the victim shot him as he was burning[82] According to the New York Sun report, "The Rucker lynching was the most spectacular in the history of Mississippi and there was no attempt at concealment or evasion."[83][81]
Turner, Allen	47	African-American	Western area of Parish (county)	Union	Louisiana	1914	Accused of Assaulting a white man (J.P. McDougall)[84]	J.P. McDougall was whipping Allen Turner's son. Allen was defending his son. Taken from deputy sheriff and shot to death. It is said that Allen's body was then dragged through the roads of Spearsville.
Leo Frank	31	Jewish	Marietta	Cobb	Georgia	1915	Killing a 13-year-old girl	No charges filed; posthumously pardoned.
Stevenson, Cordella		African-American	Columbus	Lowndes	Mississippi	1915	Her son was accused of burning a white man's barn, he was unavailable, so they raped and murdered her	Her husband Arch was never seen alive after December 15[85]
Dr Benjamin E Ward	37	White	Norman	Cleveland	Oklahoma	1915	Murdering his wife	Mob expected him to be freed on grounds of insanity.[86]
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.[46][87]
Lang, Ed		African-American	Rice	Navarro	Texas	1916	"Attacking a young woman."	Taken from a sheriff's posse and hanged.[88]
Anthony Crawford[89]	51	African-American	Abbeville	Abbeville	South Carolina	1916	Offensive language	Coroner's jury: "persons unknown"
Jesse Washington[90]	17	African-American	Waco	McLennan	Texas	1916	Murder;	Washington confessed and a jury found him guilty. Dragged behind car, castrated, fingers cut off, ear cut off, burned alive. Professionally photographed; pictures sold as postcards. Lynching of "political value" to Sheriff and to the Judge who presided over his trial. "On the way to the scene of the burning, people on every hand took a hand in showing their feelings in the matter by striking the Negro with anything obtainable, some struck him with shovels, bricks, clubs and others stabbed him and cut him until when he was strung up his body was a solid color of red."[90]^:5
Herman Arthur and brother Irving	19 and 28-years-old	African-American	Paris, Texas	Lamar County	Texas	1917	Murder	Pulled from jail and burned alive
Daley, Starr	26	White		Pinal	Arizona	May 6, 1917	Homicide (Two murders) plus two rapes	Accused admitted guilt in trial; taken from Sherriff en route to jail and Hanged from a telephone pole; last Lynching in Arizona
Ell Persons	about 50	African-American	Memphis	Shelby	Tennessee	1917	Raping and killing a white girl	No charges filed.
McIlherron, Jim [91]		African-American	Estill Springs	Franklin	Tennessee	1918	Killing two white people	Tortured, then burned alive. Spectators came from as far as 50 miles away. Postcards sold. "No information sufficient to indict."
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.[92]
Taylor, George		African-American	Rolesville	Wake	North Carolina	1918	Rape of a white woman	No charges were filed.[93] There is a Web site on this lynching.[94]
Jay Lynch	28	White	Missouri	Barton	Missouri	1919	Murder	Hanged.
Mary Turner[95]	18	African-American		Bridge joining Brooks County and Lowndes County, Georgia	Georgia	1918	Publicly opposed and threatened legal action against white people who had murdered her husband, unfairly accused (according to her) of killing an abusive landowner.	Hanged 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	Brooks	Georgia	1918	Accused of helping kill an abusive landowner.	Wife Mary killed next day for defending him.
Thompson, Allie		African-American	Culpeper	Culpeper	Virginia	1918	Assault	[41]
Mosely, Sam		African-American	Florida	Columbia	Florida	1919	Accused of assaulting a white woman.	[96]
Everest, Wesley	28	White	Centralia	Lewis	Washington	1919	Homicide	Hanged from a bridge during the Centralia Massacre labor conflict
Little, Wilbur		African-American	Blakely	Early	Georgia	1919	Wearing uniform of his WWI military service to the United States
Brown, Will	41	African-American	Omaha	Douglas	Nebraska	1919	Rape	Part of the Omaha race riot of 1919
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.[97]
Robinson, Robert		African-American	Chicago	Cook	Illinois	1919	He was black, and they wanted to kill a black	Robinson was an Army Reserve veteran.[98]
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.[99]
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.	Mob of 60 stopped car of sheriff who was driving him for protection to nearest large city, Macon. Driven to a bridge in Jasper County and shot to death. Governor was "livid".[100]^:233–234
Cox, Obe		African-American		Oglethorpe County	Georgia	1919	Accused of murdering a white farmer's wife	Taken to the scene of the crime, his body riddled with bullets and burned at the stake. Several thousand persons witnessed the scene. Controversial as the local Black communisty "thanked" the mob for just killing Cox and not attacking their community.[101]
Jones, Paul		African-American	Macon (near)	Bibb	Georgia	1919	Attacking a white woman.	Mob of 400 found him, refused to turn him over to sheriff's deputies. Soaked in gasoline, set on fire; shot while he burned.[100]^:241
Jameson, Jordan		African-American	Magnolia	Columbia	Arkansas	1919	Killing a sheriff.	Burned to death in the public square.[100]^:241
Walters, Lemuel		African-American	Longview	Gregg	Texas	1919	Making "indecent advances" to a white woman.
Holden, George		African-American	Monroe (near)	Ouachita	Louisiana	1919	Writing a suggestive note to a white woman[102]	Mob stopped a train, dragged him off, and shot him.[100]^:18
Wilkins, Willie		African-American		Jenkins	Georgia	1919	Friend of man believed to have killed lawman.	[100]^:8
Ruffin, John		African-American		Jenkins	Georgia	1919	Son of man believed to have killed lawman.	[100]^:7–8
Ruffin, Henry		African-American		Jenkins	Georgia	1919	Son of man believed to have killed lawman.	[100]^:7–8
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.[103]
Richards, Benny		African-American	Warrenton	Warren	Georgia	1919	Accused of murdering his ex-wife and shooting 5 others	300 men lynched Richards, a farmer.[104][105]
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.[106]
Prince, Henry		African-American	Hawkinsville	Pulaski	Georgia	1919	Unknown	[107]
Waters, Jim		African-American		Johnson	Georgia	1919	Rape accusation	Investigation closed in one hour with no witnesses interviewed.[107]
Livingston, Frank	25	African-American	El Dorado	Union	Arkansas	1919	False murder accusation	One of many returning WWI veterans lynched in 1919.[108]
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[109]
Chilton Jennings	28	African-American	Gilmer	Upshur County	Texas	1919	Assaulted a white women, Mrs. Virgie Haggard	He was arrested and a mob of about 1,000 white people stormed the jail and broke down the door with sledgehammers. A noose was placed around his neck and he was dragged by horse to the town square where he was hanged.[110] Four people were later arrested for the lynching, murder indictments were served for Willie Howell, Charlie Lansdale, Fritz Boyd, and Francis Flanagan.[111]
Phifer, Miles (or Relius)		African-American	Montgomery	Montgomery	Alabama	1919	Assault of a white woman	Was wearing military uniform[112]
Temple, Will		African-American	Montgomery	Montgomery	Alabama	1919	Killing a police officer	[112]
Miles Phifer, Robert Crosky and John Temple		African-American	Montgomery	Montgomery	Alabama	1919	Assault of a white woman	[112]
Hartfield, John		African-American	Ellisville	Jones	Mississippi	1919	Assaulting a young white woman	"The biggest newspaper in the state, Jackson Daily News, carried headlines announcing the exact time and place of the coming orgy.[113] 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."[114]^:9
Thomas, Wade		African-American	Jonesboro	Craighead	Arkansas	1920	Killing a policeman	Taken from jail by a mob, hanged, then riddled with bullets.[115]
Gathers, Phillip		African-American		Effingham	Georgia	1920	Murder
Scott, Henry		African American	Bartow	Polk	Florida	1920	He asked a white woman to wait until he had prepared another woman's train berth	Shot[116]
Daniels, Lige	16-18	African-American	Center	Shelby	Texas	1920	Accused of murdering a white woman.	Taken from jail by a mob of approx 1000 to the town square and hanged[117]
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.
Belton Roy	18	White	Tulsa	Tulsa	Oklahoma	1920	Suspicion of murder of cab driver	[118]
July Perry[119]	52	African-American	Ocoee	Orange	Florida	1920	Sign on body: "This is what we do to niggers that vote."	Prosperous black farmer. See Ocoee massacre.
Eley, Jesse	46	African-American	Murfreesboro	Hertford	North Carolina	1921	Owned a 50 arch farm which caused jealousy from some white neighbors.	Jesse Eley was returning from the market in Murfreesboro, North Carolina. He bought some grain for his cattle. He had two workers riding with him in his horse-drawn wagon. As he reached the outskirts of town, he entered a path that went into a wooded area. Several men were hiding in the woods entrance waiting for him. As his wagon entered the woods, the men stopped Jesse. They began beating him and eventually hanged him on a tree. Jesses workers took off running. One of them ran back to Jesses farm to let the family know what was happening. The family got a horse-drawn buggy and went to rescue him. By the time they got there, Jesse was barely alive. They found him because he raised one of his legs in the air to let them know where he was. Jesse had a hole in his head, and his stomach was cut open. His throat was seizing up because of the hanging. As they put him into the buggy, he died. [120] [121]
Lowry, Henry ("a negro sharecropper")		African-American	Nodena	Mississippi	Arkansas	1921	Asked for his wages	Burned to death; crowd of 500[114]^:3
James Harvey and Joe Jordan		African-American	N/A	Liberty	Georgia	1922	Attacked and raped white woman following a pay dispute with her husband	Hanged by a mob of about 50 men while in police custody.
Wright, Charles Young, Arthur[122] 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.
Young, Albert (or Arthur)	21	African-American	Perry	Taylor	Florida	1922	Murder of a white schoolteacher	Tortured, then burned alive
Scott, James T. (Janitor at University of Missouri)	35-56	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.[123][124]
Wilson, Abraham		African-American	Newberry	Alachua	Florida	1923	Cattle stealing	Serving 6-month sentence when taken from jail and hanged.[46][125]
Carter, Sam	45	African-American	Rosewood	Levy	Florida	1923	Assault, rape, and robbery of a white woman	Tortured. Shot before being hanged. See Rosewood massacre.
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.[126]
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.[127][128]
Marshall, Robert		African-American	Price	Carbon	Utah	1925	Accused of killing a white guard	The allegation was based on the testimony of two young boys who said they saw a black man running from the scene of the crime. Marshall was lynched in front of a crowd of 1,000. When the sheriff arrived, he cut Marshall down and was putting him in the car when Marshall made noise indicating he was alive. The mob shouted to lynch him again. Afterward, Marshall's body was put on display in the funeral parlor and photos of the lynching were sold door-to-door for 25 cents. In 1998 the community provided a headstone for him.[129]
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.[46][130]
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[131][132]
Selak, Fred N.	61	White	Grand Lake	Grand	Colorado	1926	None	Murdered in part because of a fencing dispute, but also to steal money thought to be stashed on his property.[133]
Carter, John[134]	38	African-American	Little Rock	Pulaski	Arkansas	1927	Attacking a white woman and her mother	No charges filed; "mob" responsible.
Unknown male		African-American	Marion	Crittenden	Arkansas	1930s	Teaching the black children of Marked Tree, Arkansas to read	Burned, sign posted "run niggers run!".[135]
Grant, George		African-American	Darien	McIntosh	Georgia	1930	Killing a police officer, and wounding three other people	Sheriff: "I don't know who killed the nigger and I don't give a damn."[114]^:10
Shipp, Thomas[136][137][138]	18	African-American	Marion	Grant	Indiana	1930	Accessory to homicide during holdup of white man; rumors of rape	No charges filed.
Abram Smith[136]	19	African-American	Marion	Grant	Indiana	1930	Accessory to homicide during holdup of white man; rumors of rape	No charges filed.
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 hanged, and fire lit under it. Followed by riot and destruction of black businesses. Two persons received two-year sentences for violence.[139]
Charles Wright[136]	21	African-American	Rosewood	Levy	Florida	1930	Homicide during holdup of white man; rumors of rape	No charges filed.
Parker, John		African-American	Conway	Faulkner	Arkansas	1931	Stealing some peaches	[114] < <^:4
Gunn, Raymond		African-American	Maryville	Nodaway	Missouri	1931	Murdering a white woman	Burned to death. National Guard stood by and watched.[114]^:10
Wise, Mrs.		African-American	Frankfort (Frankford?)		Virginia (West Virginia?)	1931	Objected to her daughter being taken out for "rides" with white Klansmen.	[114]^:8
Williams, Matthew	23	African-American	Salisbury	Wicomico	Maryland	1931	Killing his employer	Taken forcibly from hospital. No indictment despite numerous witnesses.[114]^:9–10
Tillis, Dave		African-American	Crockett	Houston	Texas	1932	"Demanded an accounting from his landlord. Charged with 'entering the bedroom of a white woman'".	[114]^:4–5
Thompson, Shedrick (also spelled "Shamrock")	39	African-American	rural	Fauquier	Virginia	1932	Assault and rape.
Lawrence, Elizabeth		African-American	rural	Jefferson	Alabama	1933	Reprimanding a group of white children	[140]
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.
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."[141]
Claude Neal	23	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, hanged, body tied behind automobile. Followed by Marianna riots. Important case in helping to bring lynching to an end.
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.[142]
Reuben Stacey (also found as Rubin Stacy)	37	African-American	Fort Lauderdale	Broward	Florida	1935	Assault with a knife	Law enforcement officer; grand jury refused to indict.[143]
Roosevelt Townes and Robert McDaniels		African-American	Duck Hill	Montgomery	Mississippi	1937	Pair suspected in the robbery and shooting of a shopkeeper.	Tied to a tree and tortured with blowtorches to extract a confession. McDaniels shot, Townes burned alive. Photos of the lynching made the national media.[144]
Williams, Elbert		African-American	Brownsville	Haywood	Tennessee	1940	Registering to vote and starting an NAACP chapter.	Last reported lynching in Tennessee.[145]
Green, Ernest, and Charlie Lang	14, 15	African-American	Shubuta ("hanging bridge")	Clarke	Mississippi	1942	Attempted rape.	[146]^:101
Wright, Cleo	26	African-American	Sikeston	Scott	Missouri	1942	Home invasion, attempted murder, attempted rape, resisting arrest	Around 100 black people left Sikeston and never returned.[147]
Harrison, Cellos	31	African-American	Marianna	Jackson	Florida	1943	Murder of a white man.	Awaiting new trial after conviction overturned on appeal.
Willie James Howard[148]	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.
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.
Willie Earle	24	African-American	Greenville	Greenville	South Carolina	1947	Killing of taxi driver	31 suspects charged; all acquitted.
Council, Lynn	about 19	African-American	near Raleigh	Wake	North Carolina	1952	Robbery	He survived. Newspapers treat it as a lynching. Council has received apologies from the law enforcement agencies involved.
Banks, Isadore	59	African-American	Marion	Crittenden	Arkansas	1954	Being prosperous	[149]
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.[150]
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.
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.
Morris, Frank	49-50	African-American	Ferriday	Concordia	Louisiana	1964	"Flirting" with white females	[151]^:152
Rembert, Winifred	19	African-American	Cuthbert	Randolph	Georgia	1965	Fighting with deputy while in jail for stealing car to get away from two men shooting at him.	Survived. As of 2019, Rembert is a successful leatherwork artist. He has had at least two documentary films made about his story.[152][153][154][155][156]
Pyszko, Marian	54	Polish Jew	Detroit	Wayne	Michigan	1975	None.	Killed by African American youths during riot.
Donald, Michael	19	African-American	Mobile	Mobile	Alabama	1981	None (Klan looked to kill a black man because killer of white policeman got mistrial).	Three Klansmen (Henry Hays, James Knowles, and Benjamin Cox) were convicted of Donald's murder. Henry Hays was sentenced to death and executed in the electric chair in 1997. James Knowles and Benjamin Cox were sentenced to life in prison. A civil suit against the United Klans of America caused their bankruptcy.
Turks, Willie	34	African-American	New York City	Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn	New York	1982	Drove through a majority-white neighborhood between his subway maintenance shifts	Turks and three two other black subway employees were attacked by 15 to 20 assailants who shouted racial epithets. Gino Bova, 18 at the time, was sentenced to 5 to 15 years in prison for manslaughter. Justice Sybil Hart Kooper said at the sentencing: "There was a lynch mob on Avenue X that night. The only thing missing was a rope and a tree." [157][158]
Griffith, Michael	23	Afro-Caribbean	New York City	Howard Beach, Queens	New York	1986	Walked through a majority-white neighborhood after his car broke down
Seraw, Mulugeta	28	Ethiopian	Portland, Oregon	Multnomah County, Oregon	Oregon	November 13, 1988	None (white supremacists)
Hawkins, Yusef	16	African-American	New York City	Bensonhurst, Brooklyn	New York	1989	Either mistaken as or randomly targeted in place of another black teenager who was dating a local girl	Hawkins' murder became a major political issue during the 1989 New York City mayoral election season and, alongside the lynchings of Willie Turks and Michael Griffith, played a role in the unseating of incumbent mayor Ed Koch.
Yankel Rosenbaum	29	Australian Jew	New York City	Crown Heights, Brooklyn	New York	1991	None	Rosenbaum, a student from Australia, was stabbed to death by a mob as part of the Crown Heights Riot.[159] Both New York Senator Daniel Moynihan and New York City Mayor David N. Dinkins called the killing a lynching. Dinkins said: "I think that the death of Yankel Rosenbaum was a lynching, as was Yusuf Hawkins. No question. Whatever term one gives to these kinds of vicious murders, that's what it is."[160]
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; two executed, one to life imprisonment.

21st century

Name	Age	Ethnicity	City	County or Parish	State	Year	Accusation	Comment
Arbery, Ahmaud	25	African-American	Satilla Shores	Glynn	Georgia	2020	Burglary	Chased down and shot

See also

• Lists of killings by law enforcement officers in the United States
• Mass racial violence in the United States
• Racism in the United States
• Red Summer
• The National Memorial for Peace and Justice

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