Claim: Flossie Bailey, who was the president of the local branch of the NAACP, tried to obtain police protection when two African American men, Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith were hanged from a tree after a mob broke out in Grant County in August 1930.
Evidence: On August 7, 1930, a mob broke into the Grant County, Indiana, jail in Marion, dragged two African-American men, Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, to the Courthouse Square and lynched (hanged) them from a tree. Bailey, who was the president of the local branch of the NAACP, tried to obtain police protection for the jailed men prior to the lynching.