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The mob turned against her, determined to "teach her a lesson". [10] Although she fled, Mary Turner was captured at noon on May 19. [1] [10] The mob of several hundred took her to the bank in Brooks County near Folsom Bridge, over the Little River, which forms the border with Lowndes County. [10] [4]
Blacks in the county seat Quitman pled for aid from the Governor, while others went into hiding. No significant action was taken to stop the killing until the mob reached the plantation of Mitchell Brice. One of the richest planters in the area, Brice threatened to react harshly to any further violence and perhaps press formal legal charges.
Brooks County is a county located in the U.S. state of Georgia, on its southern border with Florida. As of the 2020 census , the population was 16,301. [ 1 ] The county seat is Quitman . [ 2 ]
A lynching is an extrajudicial killing by a mob, and is not limited to deaths by hanging. Pages in category "Lynching deaths in Georgia (U.S. state)" The following 34 pages are in this category, out of 34 total.
Charles Atkins was a 15-year-old African-American boy who was lynched in Davisboro, Washington County, Georgia by a mob on May 18, 1922. According to the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary it was the 25th of 61 lynchings during 1922 in the United States. [1]
Mar. 15—QUITMAN — A Brooks County man has been charged with murdering his uncle Wednesday, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said in a statement. Jonah Kenney, 27, of Quitman, was charged ...
In 1912, Forsyth County was home to about 12,000 residents, including 1,098 Black people scattered throughout the county. But that September, an 18-year-old white woman named Mae Crow was brutally ...
The Moore's Ford lynchings, also known as the 1946 Georgia lynching, refers to the July 25, 1946, murders of four young African Americans by a mob of white men. Tradition says that the murders were committed on Moore's Ford Bridge in Walton and Oconee counties between Monroe and Watkinsville , but the four victims, two married couples, were ...