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Box L.26

 Container

Contains 118 Results:

Lynching Cases - Location Not Indicated, undated

 File — Box: L.26
Scope and Contents

Folder contains three unidentified photographs of unnamed victims and crime scenes. One photograph is by G. Marshall Wilson, an AFRO photographer based in Philadelphia.

Dates: undated

Lynching Cases - Alabama, 1929-1949, 1960

 File — Box: L.26
Scope and Contents Named lynching victims include Viola Ayer, Esau Robertson, John Robertson, Jacob Robertson, Tom Robertson (Emelle, 1930), John Williams (Hainesville, 1931), Thomas Jasper (Huntsville, 1931), Oscar Livingston (Pont-a-la-Rache, 1931), Dan Pippen and A.T. Harden (Tuscaloosa, 1933), George Taylor (Birmingham, 1934), Wes Johnson (Abbeville, 1937), Sam Holly (Carbon Hill, 1939), Jesse Thornton (Luverne, 1940), Elmore Bolling (Lowndesboro, 1947), William Turner (1948), Robert Mallard (1948), and...
Dates: 1929-1949; 1960

Lynching Cases - Arizona, 1940

 File — Box: L.26
Scope and Contents

Named lynching victim is Jack Heath, killed in 1884, reported on in 1941.

Dates: 1940

Lynching Cases - Arkansas, 1926-1941

 File — Box: L.26
Scope and Contents

Named lynching victims are Judge Powell (Louisville, 1926), John Carter (Little Rock, 1927), Owen Fleming (Helena, 1927), Frank Tucker (Crossett, 1932), and Willie Kees (Lepanto, 1936). Survivor of attempted lynching covered is John Henry Riney (Arkansas City, 1941).

Dates: 1926-1941

Lynching Cases - California, 1933-1941

 File — Box: L.26
Scope and Contents

Named lynching victims are Thomas H. Thurmond and John M. Holmes (San Jose, 1933), and C.L. Johnson (Yreka, 1935).

Dates: 1933-1941

Lynching Cases - Delaware, 1926, 1941

 File — Box: L.26
Scope and Contents

Coverage of lynching threats made to Harry Butler (Georgetown, 1926) and William H. Fields (Seaford, 1941).

Dates: 1926; 1941

Lynching Cases - District of Columbia, 1933-1941

 File — Box: L.26
Scope and Contents

Named lynching victim is Robert Scott (1941). Report of mob seeking Lloyd Newman of Accokeek, MD in D.C. in 1933.

Dates: 1933-1941

Lynching Cases - Florida, circa 1926-1949

 File — Box: L.26
Scope and Contents Named lynching victims are Henry Patterson (Labelle, 1926), Nicholas Williams (Ocola, 1926), George Budington (Waldo, 1927), Buster Allen (Tampa, 1929), William Larkins (Quincy, 1929), Ernest Thomas (Perry, 1929), Henry Woods (Jasper, 1932), Frank Norman (Orlando, 1935), Richard Hawkins and Ernest Ponder (Tallahassee, 1937), J.C. Evans (Milton, 1938), Lee Snell (Daytona Beach 1939), A.C. Williams (Quincy, 1941), Jesse James Payne (Madison, 1945), Sam A. McFadden (Jacksonville, 1946), and Red...
Dates: circa 1926-1949

Lynching Cases - Florida - Claude Neal (Marianna), 1934

 File — Box: L.26
Scope and Contents

Includes the NAACP report "The Lynching of Claude Neal," published November 30, 1934

Dates: 1934