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J. Thomas Shipp and Abraham S. Smith were African-American boys who were murdered in a spectacle lynching by a group of thousands on August 7, 1930, in Marion, Indiana. They were taken from jail cells, beaten, and hanged from a tree in the county courthouse square. They had been arrested that night as suspects in a robbery, murder and rape case.
On December 16, 1900, Bud Rowland and Jim Henderson, two Black men, were arrested for the murder of a white barber, Hollie L. Simmons in Rockport, Indiana. He was reportedly jumped by two men and was bashed across the skull with a nail-covered club. [1] The news of the murder spread through town, and suspects were quickly identified that same ...
A white officer refused to arrest the murderer, and instead arrested a black man who complained about it. [316] Robinson, Robert: African-American: Chicago: Cook: Illinois: 1919: He was black, and they wanted to kill a black: Robinson was an Army Reserve veteran. [317] Ashley, Bob: African-American: Dublin: Laurens: Georgia: 1919: Hoped to ...
Following a series of police raids by the Garda National Economic Crime Bureau (GNECB) in 2020, a handful of Black Axe members were arrested, paving the way for the exposure of a far wider network.
Missouri man charged in 1993 killing of Indianapolis woman. A Missouri man was charged with murder and rape in the fatal stabbing of a 19-year-old woman more than three decades after she was found ...
Murder. Carol Jenkins (October 19, 1947 - September 16, 1968) was an African-American woman who was murdered on September 16, 1968, by two white men in a sundown town in Indiana. Her murder remained unsolved for over thirty years until a tip led investigators to one of her murderers in the early 2000s. One of her murderers, Kenneth Clay ...
Posey County, Indiana is located in the southwestern corner of the state, wedged between the Wabash River and Illinois to the west and the Ohio River and Kentucky to the south. On October 11, 1878, Jim Good, Jeff Hopkins, Ed Warner, William Chambers, and Dan Harris, Sr. were lynched in Posey County, Indiana , near the town of Mount Vernon . [1]
The race riot began April 30, 1907 after a Black man named John Green was arrested on suspicion of assaulting and robbing a white woman by the name of Caroline Sefton. [2] Green was tried and convicted of the attack. [5] He was moved out of Greensburg after his safety was threatened. A mob still formed, and several Black people in Greensburg ...