The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-11


press is forced to report. AS this list
was being compiled, information
reached the national office Of the /.
L. D. Of three lynchings which oc-
CURED in one week in a single county
of Georgia, and which are not listed
here. Detailed information on these
and many other lynchings which
were never reported in the bour-
geois press is being sought by the
I. L. D.
Henry Ross, shot and killed
January 8 by three white men, out
side of Memphis, Tennessee. They
reported they were taking him to the
city to lay charges Of having made
improper proposals to whit
woman" against him, when he tried
to escape" from their moving car.
2-Fen Jenkin, 20, was beaten to
death by three white farmers at Ay-
cock, La, January IL. They said he
had been trespassing on the property
of one Of them
3, 4 and 5-Three members OF
Negro family Of fishermen were
hacked to death on Tavernier Island
one of the Florida Keys, January ~,
by an invading gang of white men.
All further information including the
names of the victims, was suppressed
by the authorities.
6-Robert Richardson was shot to
death in Baton Rouge, La, February
q. while attempting to escape" from
a gang Of Is, headed by a deputy
sheriff which invaded his house on
report, given out later, that ne hao
annoyed white woman"
T-Nalson Nash, "a, was hanged
from a tree by a gang Of men at
Ringgold, La, February 10.
s-George Jeter, died February 10,
from a beating administered by three
white men, who later said he hand
stolen their whiskey." Aiken, S. @.
9-Levon CarlOck, 10, beaten, tor
tured and shot to death by six police
men tout on a lark" in Memphis,
February Is. Police called on q white
prostitute to say Carlock had raped
her, at a time when he was sitting
by his Wife's sick-bed.
1o-Reuben Micou, 65-year-old
Negro, taken from Louisville, Missis-
sippi, tail by II white men, April II,
beaten to death. He had been jailed
April Is for getting into an argu-
ment with a prominent white man.
11-John williams, lynched during
first week Of May 1888, by a mob
Of rs led by sheriff. II was charged
he had stolen hog. st. Mary's, Ga.
12-WtlI Kinsey, IS, lynched May
h. by a mob of 40, following dis
butte with his landlord in which his
brother and the landlord were both
killed. Kinsey, wounded by the land
lord, was taken by q mob from q
physicians Office. Warrenton, Ca
13-DufTy Barksdale, farmer. shot
to death in front Of his home In
Clinton, S. c., May %, by mob OF
white men, including policeman
because he had dared borrow money
direct from the government instead
of through the bank.
Il and I5-Jerome Boyett and Har-
vey winchester, both white, held on
murder charges, were taken out Of
huntsville, Tennessee Jail, and
Iynched by a mob Of armed men
June g.
1877. j. Thomas, lynched at New
tor, Ca, June IA, following 8 quarrel
between Negro and white children in
tlle town.
17-Richard Marshall, lynched in
Newton, Ga, June 49, No official ex
cuse given or discovered.
19-Elizabeth Lawrence, killed by q
mob and her home burned down
just outside Birmingham, Ala, late
in June, after she scolde6 white chill.
dreu for throwing stones at her.
i9--Norris Bendy, held in Clinton
9. @. Jail. on charges Of having struck
a white man in an alteration, taken
out on the night OF July IA, beaten
and strangled to death.
2o-On July 81, an unidentified
Negro was hanged by mob in Gale
donia, Miss, after some white mer
had overheard a white woman make
an appointment to meet him.
21--Joe Soles, tenant farmer
whipped TO death by five white men
his landlord among them, at Ben
ton, Ala, August g.
az and 23--Dan Pippen, Jr., 10, and
A. T. Harden, l6. shot to death while
In custody Of deputies, supposedly
taking them from the strong TAIL in
Tuscaloosa, Ala, over wild circuit
out route. to Birmingham, for safe
keeping" August 10.
24-Henry Jackson. shot to death
by sheriff's posse at Pine Bluff. Ar
kansas August 1e.
25-James Royal. shot to death BY
gang OF men in Decatur. Alabama
after they failed in an attempt tc
lynch Thomas Brown, accused Of at
tackine white woman. August 81
26--"Doc" Rogers, 45-vear old
farmer, killed by posse at willard
N. c.. August 81. He was said tc
have been suspected" Of wourdins
white woman In the shoulder.
27--paul Orthe. shot and his BODY
burned by Sheriff Hobbe and hi:
friends at Panama City, Fla, Sep
ternber Q. after he threatened to
bring suit against the sheriff. Before
he vas killed, he was scared with hot
irons, and his flesh torn from his
bodv with pliers
2e-Richard Roscoe. deacon shot to
death September ID. at Minter City
Miss His body was dragged through
the streets tied TO the sheriff's auto
mobile He had seized plantation
agents gun after being shot three
times.
29-Dennis Gross, 5o-year old para
lytic, out on bail on a charge of
attacking white woman" was
lynched September "A. He was the
one remaining witness to the muir
der Of Negro in Tuscaloosa, Ala.
He had been unable to move hand