Lynching of Thomas Williams
Thomas Williams was an African-American man who was lynched by a mob in Memphis, Tennessee, on September 28, 1927. John R. Steelman, who wrote his PhD dissertation on "mob action in the South", listed Williams as one of the cases, and said "'The bullet-riddled body of Thomas Williams, alleged to have attacked a fifty-year old white woman, was found in Pleasant Union Churchyard, two miles from the scene of the crime' - near Memphis."