Frank Wilkes (Misreported)

February 14, 1925

City: Orange, Texas

County: Orange County

Race or Ethnicity of Victim: Black

Gender of Victim: Male

Age of Victim: Twenty-three

Alleged Crime: Murder

Manner of Death: Not lynched; Died in jail in February 1926

Source of Information: NAACP 30 Years of Lynching

Lynching in Texas Staff, “Frank Wilkes (Misreported),” Lynching In Texas, accessed April 20, 2024, https://lynchingintexas.org/items/show/22.