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A lynching is an extrajudicial killing by a mob, and is not limited to deaths by hanging. Pages in category "Lynching deaths in Tennessee" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total.
People's Grocery, Memphis Tennessee, c. 1890. The People's Grocery lynchings of 1892 occurred on March 9, 1892, in Memphis, Tennessee, when black grocery owner Thomas Moss and two of his workers, Will Stewart and Calvin McDowell, were lynched by a white mob while in police custody. The lynchings occurred in the aftermath of a fight between ...
Sociologist Arthur F. Raper investigated one hundred lynchings during the 1930s and estimated that approximately one-third of the victims were falsely accused. [4] [5] 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.
Thomas Williams was an African-American man who was lynched by a mob in Memphis, Tennessee, on September 28, 1927. [1]John R. Steelman, who wrote his PhD dissertation on "mob action in the South", listed Williams as one of the cases, wrote: "'The bullet-riddled body of Thomas Williams, alleged to have attacked a fifty-year old white woman, was found in Pleasant Union Churchyard, two miles from ...
The Nashville Tennessean noted that it was reminiscent of the 1892 lynching of Ephraim Grizzard. [1] The lynching was denounced by Nashville Mayor Hilary Ewing Howse. [2] Prominent city residents wrote an open letter to Governor Austin Peay and Sheriff Riley asking them to bring the perpetrators of the lynching to justice. [3]
According to the Memphis Evening Appeal, Paris sheriff D. T. Caldwell was at Joseph Upchurch's house (in the northwest part of Henry County, Tennessee) on June 17, 1927, after being told by his relatives that he had been acting "queerly". The paper said "Upchurch is said to have been mentally unbalanced and threatened other negroes of the ...
Bierfield and his African-American clerk, Lawrence Bowman, were confronted in Bierfield's store in Franklin, Tennessee, and fatally shot on August 15, 1868, by a group of masked men. The killers were believed to belong to a local chapter of the Ku Klux Klan , which had emerged as an insurgent force in the state in 1866.
Leo Frank's lynching on the morning of August 17, 1915. [1] There are multiple recorded incidents of the lynching of American Jews occurring between 1868 and 1964 in the American South. In 1868 in Tennessee, Samuel Bierfield became the first American Jew to be lynched. The lynching of Leo Frank is the most well-known case in American history. [2]