Entries tagged "1908": 20
Lynching of Frank Williams
City: Hemphill, Texas County: Sabine County Race or Ethnicity of Victim: Black Gender of Victim: Male Age of Victim: 22 Alleged Crime: Murder Manner of Death: Shot Source of Information: NAACP 30 Years of Lynching
Lynching of Moses Spellman
City: Hemphill, Texas County: Sabine County Race or Ethnicity of Victim: Black Gender of Victim: Male Age of Victim: 24 Alleged Crime: Murder Manner of Death: Hanged Source of Information: NAACP 30 Years of Lynching
Lynching of William McCoy
City: Hemphill, Texas County: Sabine County Race or Ethnicity of Victim: Black Gender of Victim: Male Age of Victim: 40 Alleged Crime: Murder Manner of Death: Shot Source of Information: NAACP 30 Years of Lynching
Lynching of William Manuel
City: Hemphill, Texas County: Sabine County Race or Ethnicity of Victim: Black Gender of Victim: Male Age of Victim: 25 Alleged Crime: Murder Manner of Death: Hanged Source of Information: NAACP 30 Years of Lynching
Lynching of William Johnson
City: Hemphill, Texas County: Sabine County Race or Ethnicity of Victim: Black Gender of Victim: Male Age of Victim: 24 Alleged Crime: Murder Manner of Death: Hanged Source of Information: NAACP 30 Years of Lynching
Lynching of Jerry Evans
City: Hemphill, Texas County: Sabine County Race or Ethnicity of Victim: Black Gender of Victim: Male Age of Victim: 22 Alleged Crime: Murder Manner of Death: Hanged Source of Information: NAACP 30 Years of Lynching
Lynching of Jasper Douglas
City: Atlanta, Texas County: Cass County Race or Ethnicity of Victim: Black Gender of Victim: Male Age of Victim: Unknown Alleged Crime: Rape Manner of Death: Hanged Source of Information: NAACP 30 Years of Lynching
Lynching of Albert Fields
City: Longview, Texas
County: Gregg County
Race or Ethnicity of Victim: Black
Gender of Victim: Male
Age of Victim: 20
Alleged Crime: Insulting a white girl
Manner of Death: Hanged
Source of Information: NAACP 30 Years of Lynching
Lynching of Charley Scott
City: Conroe, Texas County: Montgomery County Race or Ethnicity of Victim: Black Gender of Victim: Male Age of Victim: 18 Alleged Crime: Attempted Rape Manner of Death: Hanged Source of Information: NAACP 30 Years of Lynching
Lynching of John Campbell
On March 8, 1908, dawn arrived in Navasota, just as it did every morning. The fields that surrounded the East Texas town had begun to fill with bluebonnets, and local citizens prepared for a beautiful spring day. Yet the appearance of normality…