Henderson, O'Dee |
n/a |
male |
--- |
May 9, 1940 |
Alabama |
Jefferson |
Fairfield |
beaten while handcuffed with a blackjack, rubber hose and leather strap, then shot three times all while in police custody |
12, 21 |
Williams, Elbert (El) |
|
male |
--- |
June 20, 1940 |
Tennessee |
Haywood |
Brownsville |
the NAACP secretary was beaten, stabbed, and put in the Hatchee River |
9, 12 |
Thornton, Jesse |
n/a |
male |
|
June 21, 1940 |
Alabama |
Crenshaw |
Luverne |
shot multiple times by a lynch mob for mentioning the presence of a white woman |
12 |
Bass, George |
n/a |
male |
--- |
August 26, 1940 |
Tennessee |
Shelby |
Memphis |
his car was overturned and he was beaten; survived |
9 |
Bass, George |
n/a |
male |
--- |
August 29, 1940 |
Tennessee |
Shelby |
Memphis |
beaten, required 85 stitches; survived |
9 |
Bedgood, Noel |
n/a |
male |
--- |
August 29, 1940 |
Tennessee |
Shelby |
Memphis |
beaten, required 17 stitches; survived |
9 |
Melker, Robert* |
n/a |
male |
23 |
April 13, 1941 |
North Carolina |
Wilkes |
Cherryville |
Melker and his wife got into a verbal altercation with four white men; as the men threw rocks at them they fled toard their home
where Melker's mother grabbed a shotgun and fired once at the men; they left, grabbed their shotguns and returned to the house; Melker
opened the door and the men fired multiple shotgun blasts and killed him; these were the first white men ever convicted and sentenced
for a lynching in North Carolina |
25 |
Williams, A.C.* |
n/a |
male |
22 |
May 13, 1941 |
Florida |
Gadsden |
Quincy |
Williams was shot to death after being abducted, twice, from authorities. Four white men initially took him from Gadsden County jail,
and he was later found in the home of another black man having been left for dead after several bullet wounds and being beaten. The ambulance
the sheriff placed Williams in was then stopped by four or five men and he was taken a second time. Williams was then found dead on a
bridge. |
29 |
Thompson, Martin |
n/a |
male |
--- |
October 1941 |
Alabama |
--- |
near Mobile |
Thompson had been held against his will by Charles E. Bledsoe, who pleaded guilty to federal charges; he was merely given a
$100 fine and six months probation; Bledsoe continued to hold people against their will and J. Edgar Hoover refused to look into it
further in 1942 |
23 |
Jackson, John* |
n/a |
male |
early 20's |
1941 |
Alabama |
Jefferson |
Birmingham |
the black metal worker was shot in the back of a police car for arguing with the arresting officers in front of a movie theater |
21 |
Wright, Cleo* |
n/a |
male |
--- |
January 25, 1942 |
Missouri |
New Madrid |
Sikeston |
after being shot four times while resisting arrest and nearly killing one officer with a knife, Wright was pulled from a hospital, dragged behind an automobile and burned
to death with gasoline after being broken out of a local jail by a mob; the state grand jury made no indictments, and then the federal grand jury said that murder was indeed
a crime but no federal crime had been committed; Wright was one of the less common cases where his guilt of rape and near murder of a woman was not in any real doubt |
20, |
Williams, Henry* |
n/a |
male |
--- |
August 15, 1942 |
Alabama |
|
Mobile |
Grover Chandler, a white bus driver, shot and killed Williams, a black soldier, as he was getting off the bus |
30 |
Irving, Alfred |
n/a |
male |
--- |
September 1942 |
Texas |
Bee |
Beeville |
the mentally retarded black worker was held in bondage by a white farmer and his adult daughter for four years; Irving was
physically disfigured by the beatings with whips, chains, and ropes that he had received during that time; the two were sentenced
to federal prison |
23 |
Lang, Charlie |
n/a |
male |
14 |
October 1942 |
Mississippi |
Clarke |
Shubuta |
hanged after being taken from jail by a mob |
3, 42 |
Green, Ernest |
n/a |
male |
14 |
October 1942 |
Mississippi |
Clarke |
Shubuta |
hanged after being taken from jail by a mob |
3, 42 |
Wash, Howard |
n/a |
male |
45 |
1942 |
Mississippi |
Jones |
--- |
lynched |
3 |
--- |
n/a |
male |
--- |
May 1943 |
Mississippi |
Amite or Wilkinson |
Centreville |
the county sheriff shot a private just outside an army base setting off a race riot |
3 |
Harrison, Cellos |
n/a |
male |
--- |
June 16, 1943 |
Florida |
Jackson |
Marianna |
kidnapped from jail by a lynch mob and beaten to death despite two overturned convictions |
12 |
Person, James Edward* |
n/a |
male |
--- |
October 12, 1943 |
Illinois |
Edgar |
Paris |
the African-American was shot in a lynching for an unknown offense |
18 |
Willis, Hallery (Hollis)* |
n/a |
male |
--- |
November 7, 1943 |
Illinois |
Fulton |
Lewiston |
the African-American was shot in a lynching for rape |
18 |
Hall, Robert* |
n/a |
male |
about 30 |
1943 |
Georgia |
Baker |
--- |
Mack Claude Screws, the sheriff of Baker County, and two assistants beat a black man to death; Screws v. United States (1945)
came out of this case; Screws was acquitted in his second trial andserved as sheriff for twenty more years |
20 |
Howard, Willie James |
n/a |
male |
15 |
January 2, 1944 |
Florida |
Suwannee |
Live Oak |
forced to jump off a bridge while his hands and feet were bound, or be shot, by three white men for a crush on one of their daughters |
12 |
Simmons, Rev. Isaac |
|
male |
66 |
March 26, 1944 |
Mississippi |
Amite |
Liberty |
beaten, then shot three times in the back and his tongue was cut out because he had hired a lawyer to protect his title to a
220-acre farm where oil was suspected to exist |
3, 12, 29 |
Davila, Jose |
n/a |
male |
32 (19) |
October 6, 1944 |
Michigan |
Oceana |
Hart |
beaten then shot by the county sheriff for allegedly stealing eye glasses |
12 |
Scales, James |
|
male |
16 |
November 23, 1944 |
Tennessee |
Bledsoe |
Pikeville |
about to be hung by a lynch mob when one of them shot him at least 4 times in the head |
12 |
an African-American family of four |
n/a |
|
|
1945 |
California |
|
near Los Angeles |
the entire family of four was killed when their new home in an all-white neighborhood was blown up |
32 |
two African-Americans |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
February 1946 |
Tennessee |
Maury |
Columbia |
killed1 |
6, 9 |
Ferguson, Charles, Joseph, Richard and Alphonzo |
n/a |
male |
--- |
early 1946 |
New York |
Nassau |
Freeport |
the four brothers were lined up against a wall by a policeman, three were shot and two killed; two survuived |
2 |
Snipes, MaceoU |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
July 18, 1946 |
Georgia |
Taylor |
Butler |
--- |
13 |
Dorsey, GeorgeU |
n/a |
male |
--- |
July 25, 1946 |
Georgia |
Walton |
Monroe |
mob lynching of two African-American couples who were lined up and shot dead |
6, 9, 13, 35, 42 |
Dorsey, MaeU |
n/a |
female |
--- |
July 25, 1946 |
Georgia |
Walton |
Monroe |
mob lynching of two African-American couples who were lined up and shot dead |
6, 9, 13, 35, 42 |
Malcolm, DorothyU |
n/a |
female |
--- |
July 25, 1946 |
Georgia |
Walton |
Monroe |
mob lynching of two African-American couples who were lined up and shot dead |
6, 9, 13, 35, 42 |
Malcolm, RogerU |
n/a |
male |
--- |
July 25, 1946 |
Georgia |
Walton |
Monroe |
mob lynching of two African-American couples who were lined up and shot dead |
6, 9, 13, 35, 42 |
Jones, John C. |
|
male |
--- |
August 8, 1946 |
Louisiana |
Webster |
Minden |
the army veteran and his young cousin were beaten by a lynch mob; Jones was tortured with a blowtorch and died |
12, 35 |
Harris, Albert |
n/a |
male |
17 |
August 8, 1946 |
Louisiana |
Webster |
Minden |
left for dead by a lynch mob after beating; survived |
12, 35 |
Earle, Willie |
n/a |
male |
--- |
early 1947 |
Mississippi |
Washington |
Greenville |
taken from his jail cell and lynched by a crowd of taxi drivers who thought he had murdered one of their own; 26 taxi drivers
confessed to the lynching and yet there was still a not guilty verdict in their trial |
9, 35 |
--- |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
August 18, 1947 |
Alabama |
Jefferson |
Birmingham |
winning plaintiff in a housing suit's home bombed with six sticks of dynamite |
4 |
--- |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
Fall 1947 |
Illinois |
Cook |
Chicago |
a gang attacked an interracial group of baseball players, there were at least two broken jaws and a
black eye given out; all survived |
2 |
Nixon, Isaiah |
n/a |
male |
--- |
September 8, 1948 |
Georgia |
Montgomery |
Alston |
shot three times on his porch in front of his family (wife and six kids) for voting in the primary election |
12 |
Mallard, Robert |
|
male |
37 |
November 20, 1948 |
Georgia |
Toombs |
Lyons |
shot by a mob of 20 men in front of his family |
12 |
---* |
n/a |
male |
--- |
1948 |
Mississippi |
Humphreys |
Louise |
the tenant farmer was beaten by two whites for asking for a receipt after paying his water bill |
28 |
seven African-Americans |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
April 2, 1949 |
Georgia |
Dade |
Trenton |
flogged by the Klan; survived |
14 |
Hill Jr., Caleb |
|
male |
28 |
May 30, 1949 |
Georgia |
Wilkinson |
Irwinton |
shot three times after being abducted from jail |
12 |
four men and one woman |
n/a |
female |
--- |
June 20, 1949 |
Alabama |
Jefferson |
Birmingham |
the men were flogged and the woman beaten by hooded night riders; survived |
5 |
Wright, Malcolm |
|
male |
abt 49 |
July 2, 1949 |
Mississippi |
Chickasaw |
Houston |
skull split open by being hit with a bumper jack |
12 |
--- |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
July 1949 |
Florida |
Lake |
Groveland |
multiple homes burned and pillaged by the Klan |
5 |
--- |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
Spring 1950 |
Alabama |
Jefferson |
Birmingham |
the home of an African-American dentist was bombed |
4 |
owner of a nightclub |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
August 26, 1950 |
South Carolina |
Horry |
--- |
abducted by the Klan from his club after large-scale gunfight; survived |
5 |
two disabled men |
n/a |
male |
--- |
March 1951 |
South Carolina |
Horry |
--- |
abducted and flogged by the Klan; survived |
5 |
Moore, Harriette V.U |
|
female |
50 |
December 25, 1951 |
Florida |
Brevard |
Mims |
bomb placed under her bedroom |
12, 13, 15, 16, 28 |
Moore, Harry T.U |
|
male |
46 |
December 25, 1951 |
Florida |
Brevard |
Mims |
bomb placed under his bedroom |
12, 13, 15, 16, 28 |
Day Jr., James Edward |
n/a |
male |
--- |
1951 |
Georgia |
--- |
near Macon |
Day was held in peonage by a naval stores operator; Day escaped after the employer threatened to kill him but the employer still held
his four children; an attorney attempted to take the employer to court to get the children, but there officers arrested Day on a false charge;
he remained there for eight days before being released |
24 |
several African-American women |
n/a |
female |
--- |
1951 or early 1952 |
North Carolina |
Columbus |
--- |
forcibly had crosses shaved into their heads; survived |
5 |
Brooks, HilliardF, U |
n/a |
male |
22 |
August 13, 1952 |
Alabama |
Montgomery |
Montgomery |
shot by a police officer over an alleged unpaid bus fare |
1, 11, 13 |
Ureste, LadisladoU |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
April 23, 1953 |
Texas |
Bexar |
San Antonio |
--- |
13 |
McDuffie, Della |
n/a |
female |
63 |
April 25, 1953 |
Alabama |
Wilcox |
Alberta |
wheelchair-bound woman was beaten to death by a sheriff on a night raid |
12 |
Bolden, PrestonU |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
May 8, 1953 |
Texas |
Bexar |
San Antonio |
--- |
13 |
Banks, IsadoreF, U |
|
male |
59 |
June 4, 1954 |
Arkansas |
Crittenden |
Marion |
found chained to a tree and burned |
11, 12, 13 |
Henry, Izell (Isaiah)F, U |
--- |
male |
--- |
July 28, 1954 |
Louisiana |
Saint Helena |
Greensburg |
brutally beaten a day after voting in 1954; survived with brain damage until 1958 |
1, 11, 13 |
Andrew, Charlotte, and Rosemary Wade |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
1954 |
Kentucky |
Jefferson |
Louisville |
after integrating a neighborhood a cross was burned next door, ten rifle shots were fired through their kitchen door and a month later their home was dynamited |
4, 32 |
Lee, Rev. GeorgeM, U |
|
male |
52 |
May 7, 1955 |
Mississippi |
Humphreys |
Belzoni |
shot for urging African-Americans to vote as an NAACP activist |
1, 3, 10, 12, 13 |
Smith, LamarM, U |
|
male |
63 |
August 13, 1955 |
Mississippi |
Lincoln |
Brookhaven |
shot in front of a courthouse having urged African-Americans to vote |
1, 3, 8, 10, 12, 13 |
Till, Emmett Louis "Bobo"M, U |
|
male |
14 |
August 28, 1955 |
Mississippi |
Leflore |
Money |
beaten and shot; the defendants were acquitted in a show trial; the Justice Department re-opened the investigation in 2004 |
1, 3, 10, 12, 13, 35, 42 |
Reese, John EarlM, U |
n/a |
male |
16 |
October 22 (23), 1955 |
Texas |
Gregg |
Mayflower |
shot in a drive-by shooting while in a cafe by two whites over school integration |
1, 10, 12, 13 |
Nelson, Joyce |
n/a |
female |
13 |
October 22 (23), 1955 |
Texas |
Gregg |
Mayflower |
shot in a drive-by shooting while in a cafe by two whites over school integration; survived |
1, 10, 12 |
Nelson, Johnnie |
n/a |
male |
15 |
October 22 (23), 1955 |
Texas |
Gregg |
Mayflower |
shot in a drive-by shooting while in a cafe by two whites over school integration; survived |
1, 10, 12 |
Bromley, Howard |
n/a |
male |
23 |
November 5, 1955 |
Virginia |
Northumberland |
Heathsville |
shot three times in the back after an argument |
12 |
Melton, ClintonF, U |
n/a |
male |
--- |
December 3, 1955 |
Mississippi |
Tallahatchie |
Sumner |
shotgun blast while in his car |
1, 11, 12, 13 |
Evanston (Evansington), J.E.F, U |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
1955 |
Mississippi |
Warren/Tallahatchie |
Long Lake |
the teacher's body was found in Long Lake in December |
11, 13 |
Grim, D.M. |
n/a |
male |
--- |
mid-1950's |
Mississippi |
Rankin |
--- |
Sheriff Edwards beat him inside the Rankin County Courthouse; survived |
8 |
Shelby, Jessie JamesF, U |
n/a |
male |
23 |
January 21, 1956 |
Mississippi |
Yazoo |
Yazoo City |
shot by a police officer |
11, 13 |
King Jr., Dr. Martin LutherM* |
|
male |
--- |
January 30, 1956 |
--- |
--- |
--- |
his home was bombed along with those of other Civil Rights leaders |
16, 27 |
Brewer, Dr. ThomasF, U |
|
male |
61 |
February 18, 1956 |
Georgia |
Muscogee |
Columbus |
shot seven times outside of his office by a white politician |
11, 12, 13 |
Owens, WillU |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
March 5, 1956 |
North Carolina |
Craven |
New Bern |
--- |
13 |
Baldwin, Rev. Charles H. (L.C.) |
n/a |
male |
73 (79) |
April 22, 1956 |
Alabama |
Madison or Limestone |
Huntsville |
hit by a ten-pound rock thrown from a car |
1, 12 |
McDowell, BessieU
| n/a |
female |
--- |
June 14, 1956 |
Alabama |
Covington |
Andalusia |
shot while sleeping in her bed by a man trying to frighten her nephew into paying a debt |
12, 13 |
Mahone, MaybelleF, U |
n/a |
female |
30 |
December 5, 1956 (1967) |
Georgia |
Pike |
Zebulon/Molena |
shot with a shotgun by a white man for "sassing" him |
1, 11, 12, 13 |
Shuttlesworth, Rev. Fred |
|
male |
34 |
December 25, 1956 |
Alabama |
Jefferson |
Birmingham |
home bombed; survived |
4, 16 |
--- |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
December 31, 1956 |
Alabama |
Jefferson |
Birmingham |
home bombed |
4 |
Edwards Jr., WillieM, U |
|
male |
25 |
January 23, 1957 |
Alabama |
Montgomery |
--- |
forced to jump off the Tyler-Goodwin bridge by the Klan |
1, 10, 12, 13 |
Sanford, Willie JoeF, U |
n/a |
male |
--- |
March 1, 1957 |
Georgia |
Pulaski |
Hawkinsville |
found tied at the bottom of a river |
11, 13 |
Singleton, W.G. (George)F, U |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
April 30, 1957 |
North Carolina |
Cleveland |
Shelby |
died from third-degree burns from an explosion and fire |
11, 13 |
--- |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
April 1957 |
Alabama |
Jefferson |
Birmingham |
two homes bombed |
4 |
Brown, CharlesF, U |
n/a |
male |
--- |
June 18, 1957 |
Mississippi |
Yazoo |
Yazoo City |
shot by a white man for visiting that man's sister |
11, 13 |
African-American man |
n/a |
male |
58 |
Summer 1957 |
South Carolina |
Greenville |
--- |
beaten with blackjacks and sticks; survived |
5 |
Aaron, Edward "Judge" |
n/a |
male |
34 |
September (Labor Day) 1957 |
Alabama |
Jefferson |
Birmingham |
beaten, castrated and burned with turpentine; survived |
4, 5 |
Shuttlesworth, Rev. Fred |
|
male |
35 |
September 9, 1957 |
Alabama |
Jefferson |
Birmingham |
hit with chains, beaten with brass knuckles when he attempted to have his daughters integrate a white school; survived |
4, 16 |
Shuttlesworth, Ruby |
|
female |
--- |
September 9, 1957 |
Alabama |
Jefferson |
Birmingham |
stabbed in the hip when she attempted to have her daughters integrate a white school; survived |
4, 16 |
Phifer, Rev. J.S. |
n/a |
male |
--- |
September 9, 1957 |
Alabama |
Jefferson |
Birmingham |
hit with chains; survived |
4 |
---* |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
September 9, 1957 |
Tennessee |
|
Nashville |
Hattie Cotton Elementary, a new school with enrollment of 388 whites and one African-American, was blasted by dynamite. |
16 |
Wilson, Alex |
n/a |
male |
--- |
September 23, 1957 |
Arkansas |
Pulaski |
Little Rock |
kicked, punched, and hit in the head with bricks; survived |
7 |
Hamilton, RogersF, U |
n/a |
male |
19 |
October 22, 1957 |
Alabama |
Lowndes |
--- |
taken from his home and shot to death |
11, 13 |
--- |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
December 7, 1957 |
Alabama |
Jefferson |
Birmingham |
home hit with two bombs |
4 |
Pickett, Charles HoratiousF, U |
n/a |
male |
--- |
December 21, 1957 |
Georgia |
Muscogee |
Columbus |
beaten to death in police custody |
11, 13 |
Love, GeorgeF, U |
n/a |
male |
--- |
January 8, 1958 |
Mississippi |
Sunflower |
Ruleville/Indianola |
shot in a gun battle with police but was cleared of the crime for which
they were trying to subdue him |
11, 13 |
--- |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
February 1958 |
North Carolina |
Mecklenburg |
Charlotte |
Klansmen attempt to dynamite an elementary school for African-Americans |
5 |
Brazier, JamesF, U |
n/a |
male |
--- |
April 20, 1958 |
Georgia |
Terrell |
Dawson |
beaten by two police officers in front of his 10-yr old son; died 5 days later from a fractured skull and brain damage |
11, 12, 13 |
--- |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
April 26th or 27th, 1958 |
Florida |
Duval |
Jacksonville |
African-American junior high school and Temple Beth El dynamited |
4 |
Smith, EdF, U |
n/a |
male |
--- |
April 27, 1958 |
Mississippi |
Greene or Wayne |
State Line |
shot in his yard with his wife as a witness |
11, 13 |
--- |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
April 28, 1958 |
Alabama |
Jefferson |
Birmingham |
54 sticks of dynamite discovered at Temple Beth El |
4 |
Bolden, John LarryF, U |
n/a |
male |
15 |
May 3, 1958 |
Tennessee |
Hamilton |
Chattanooga |
shot by police |
11, 13 |
Countryman, WillieF, U |
n/a |
male |
--- |
May 25, 1958 |
Georgia |
Terrell |
Dawson |
allegedly killed in self-defense by a police officer |
11, 12, 13 |
Daniels, Woodrow WilsonF, U |
n/a |
male |
37 |
June 22 (25), 1958 |
Mississippi |
Yalobusha |
Water Valley |
repeatedly beaten while in prison; died on July 1 of a stroke |
11, 12, 13 |
Shuttlesworth, Rev. Fred |
|
--- |
--- |
June 29, 1958 |
Alabama |
Jefferson |
Birmingham |
Bethel Baptist church attempted to be bombed; survived |
4 |
Lillard, RichardF, U |
n/a |
male |
--- |
July 20, 1958 |
Tennessee |
Davidson |
Nashville |
beaten by three white guards at a workhouse |
11, 13 |
Hunter, ErnestF, U |
n/a |
male |
--- |
September 13, 1958 |
Georgia |
Camden |
St. Mary's |
shot while in jail |
11, 13 |
Jeter, Joseph (Joe) FranklinF, U |
n/a |
male |
--- |
September 13, 1958 |
Georgia |
Fulton or DeKalb |
Atlanta |
killed by police in front of his family |
11, 13 |
King Jr., Dr. Martin LutherM* |
|
male |
--- |
September 20, 1958 |
New York |
New York |
Harlem |
stabbed in the chest by a "crazed" black woman |
16 |
Evers, Medger |
|
male |
33 |
1958 |
Mississippi |
Lauderdale |
Meridian |
Evers was assaulted while trying to integrate a bus |
30 |
Parker, Mack CharlesM, U |
|
male |
23 |
April 25 (May 4), 1959 |
Mississippi |
Pearl River |
Poplarville |
beaten and shot twice in the chest after being taken from jail by a lynch mob |
1, 3, 10, 12, 13, 16, 35 |
Billups, Charles |
n/a |
male |
abt 34 |
April 1959 |
Alabama |
Jefferson |
Biringham |
beaten and branded with "KKK" on his stomach; survived |
4 |
Causey, Jonas |
n/a |
male |
70 |
May 10, 1959 |
Mississippi |
Coahoma |
Clarksdale |
died in his home being shot by law enforcement; he had earlier in the day shot two white men who had attacked his home
and shot his wife |
12 |
Causey, Elnora |
n/a |
female |
--- |
May 10, 1959 |
Mississippi |
Coahoma |
Clarksdale |
shot in the thigh by a group of drunk white men attacking her home; survived |
12 |
Person, William |
n/a |
male |
28 |
June 13, 1959 |
North Carolina |
Franklin |
Youngsville |
shot in the back because he refused to work for a white farmer |
12 |
O'Quinn, SamF, U |
|
male |
--- |
August 14, 1959 |
Mississippi |
Amite or Wilkinson |
Centreville |
the father of 11 and successful businessman was shot shortly after joining the NAACP |
11, 12, 13 |
Mixon, Booker T.F, U |
n/a |
male |
35 (25) |
October (September) 12, 1959 |
Mississippi |
Coahoma |
Clarksdale/Marks |
found naked on the side of the road with large amounts of flesh missing probably from being dragged by a car |
11, 12, 13 |
Jackson, LutherF, U |
n/a |
male |
27 |
October 30 (25), 1959 |
Mississippi |
Neshoba |
Philadelphia |
shot twice by a police officer with no provocation according to the closest witness |
3, 11, 12, 13 |
Prather, William RoyF, U |
n/a |
male |
15 |
October 31 (November 1), 1959 |
Mississsippi |
Alcorn |
Corinth |
killed in an "anti-black Halloween prank" by eight youths |
11, 12, 13 |
Shakur, Lumumba* |
n/a |
male |
16 |
December 1959 |
New York |
New York |
Jamaica (Queens) |
Shakur was punched in the face by a white member of the navy while on a bus who hailed from the south; others beat the
sailor brutally but the police arrested Shakur; then they took him to the hospital and the white sailor identified him as the
aggressor, the police beat him right there in front of doctors and nurses; Shakur was sent to jail for five years |
26 |
King, Coretta Scott* |
n/a |
female |
--- |
early 1960s |
Georgia |
Fulton |
Atlanta |
beaten which resulted in a miscarriage |
17 |
Turner, Felton * |
n/a |
male |
27 |
March 7, 1960 |
Texas |
Harris |
Houston |
Felton was beaten with chains, hung by his heels form a tree, and "KKK" was carved into his chest, and again into his
stomach in response to sit-in demonstrations by students at Texas Southern University |
29 |
Greene (Green), MattieU |
|
female |
32 |
May 16, 1960 (May 20, 1965) |
Georgia |
Catoosa |
Ringgold |
a bomb exploded under her house; her husband Jethro and 6 children survived |
11, 12, 13 |
Johnson (Johns), MarshallF, U |
n/a |
male |
--- |
July 13, 1960 |
Louisiana |
Ouachita |
Monroe |
his employer shot him and three other employees to death |
11, 13 |
McPharland, ErnestF, U |
n/a |
male |
--- |
July 13, 1960 |
Louisiana |
Ouachita |
Monroe |
his employer shot him and three other employees to death |
11, 13 |
Pitts, AlbertF, U |
n/a |
male |
--- |
July 13, 1960 |
Louisiana |
Ouachita |
Monroe |
his employer shot him and three other employees to death |
11, 13 |
Pitts, DavidF, U |
n/a |
male |
--- |
July 13, 1960 |
Louisiana |
Ouachita |
Monroe |
his employer shot him and three other employees to death |
11, 13 |
--- |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
July 13, 1960 |
Louisiana |
Ouachita |
Monroe |
their employer killed four other men and shot this fifth person who survived |
11 |
Robinson, FredF, U |
n/a |
male |
--- |
August 3, 1960 |
South Carolina |
Charleston or Colleton |
Edisto Island |
washed ashore on August 5th; eyes gouged out and skull crushed |
11, 13 |
Germany, J.H. |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
Summer 1960 |
Mississippi |
Neshoba |
near Philadelphia |
beaten, run out of state for training African-American ministers at the college of which he was President |
8 |
Cloninger (Cloniger), ClarenceF, U |
n/a |
male |
--- |
October 10, 1960 |
North Carolina |
Northampton |
Gaston |
denied medical attention after a heart attack while in jail |
11, 13 |
--- |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
May 14, 1961 |
Alabama |
Calhoun |
Anniston |
the Freedom Riders' bus was stoned, firebombed and destroyed and the Riders attacked |
4, 30 |
Bergman, Walter |
n/a |
male |
61 |
May 14, 1961 |
Alabama |
Calhoun |
Anniston |
the Freedom Rider was beaten; survived with paralysis |
1, 4 |
Person, Charles |
n/a |
male |
--- |
May 14, 1961 |
Alabama |
Calhoun |
Anniston |
the Freedom Rider was beaten; survived |
4 |
Peck, Jim |
n/a |
male |
--- |
May 14, 1961 |
Alabama |
Calhoun |
Anniston |
the Freedom Rider was beaten; survived |
4 |
Webb, George |
n/a |
male |
29 |
May 14, 1961 |
Alabama |
Calhoun |
Anniston |
the Freedom Rider was beaten with a lead pipe; survived |
4 |
Langston, Tommy |
n/a |
male |
--- |
May 14, 1961 |
Alabama |
Calhoun |
Anniston |
the Freedom Rider was kicked repeatedly while in fetal position; survived |
4 |
--- |
n/a |
female |
--- |
May 14, 1961 |
Alabama |
Calhoun |
Anniston |
the Freedom Rider was clubbed; survived |
4 |
Lake, Clancy |
n/a |
male |
--- |
May 14, 1961 |
Alabama |
Calhoun |
Anniston |
the Freedom Rider was beaten, hit with a pipe; survived |
4 |
Lewis, John |
|
male |
--- |
May 20, 1961 |
Alabama |
Montgomery |
Montgomery |
the Freedom Rider was hit over the head with a wooden crate; survived |
4 |
Seigenthaler, John |
|
male |
--- |
May 20, 1961 |
Alabama |
Montgomery |
Montgomery |
the Freedom Rider was smashed over the ear with a pipe; survived |
4, 30 |
Zwerg, James |
n/a |
male |
--- |
May 20, 1961 |
Alabama |
Montgomery |
Montgomery |
the Freedom Rider was hospitalized for serious injuries; survived |
30 |
Moses, Robert |
|
male |
--- |
late August 1961 |
Mississippi |
Pike |
McComb |
attacked with the butt end of a knife requiring eight stitches; survived |
3 |
Britt, Travis |
n/a |
male |
--- |
September 5, 1961 |
Mississippi |
Amite |
Liberty |
beaten for helping to register voters; survived |
3 |
Hardy, John |
n/a |
male |
--- |
September 7, 1961 |
Mississippi |
Pike |
McComb |
hit on the head with a pistol for helping to register voters, then arrested; survived |
3 |
Lee, HerbertM, U |
|
male |
50 (42) |
September 25, 1961 |
Mississippi |
Amite |
Liberty |
shot by a state representative for being active in registering voters |
1, 3, 10, 11, 13 |
Brumfield, EliF, U |
n/a |
male |
--- |
October 13, 1961 |
Mississippi |
Pike |
McComb |
shot in self-defense according to the police officer who killed Brumfield |
11, 13 |
--- |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
January 16, 1962 |
Alabama |
Jefferson |
Birmingham |
three churches damaged by bombs |
4 |
Ducksworth Jr., Cpl. RomanM, U |
|
male |
abt 26 |
April 9, 1962 |
Mississippi |
Smith |
Taylorsville |
shot by a police officer for refusing to move to the back of a bus |
1, 3, 10, 12, 13 |
Stokes, Ronald T.X.* |
n/a |
male |
--- |
April 1962 |
California |
Los Angeles |
Los Angeles |
the unarmed Stokes was shot dead suring a police assault on the L.A. Nation of Islam mosque |
22 |
Dumas, Joseph HillF, U |
n/a |
male |
19 |
May 5, 1962 |
Florida |
Taylor |
Perry |
shot, most likely, by a constable |
11, 13 |
--- * |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
August 15, 1962 |
Georgia |
Lee |
Leesburg |
Shady Grove Baptist Church burned down |
16 |
---* |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
September 9, 1962 |
Georgia |
Terrell |
Sasser |
two African-American churches near Sasser were burned down |
16 |
two black youths* |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
September 11, 1962 |
Mississippi |
Sunflower |
Ruleville |
the two youths involved in a voter registration drive were injured by shotgun blasts fired into the windows of a home |
16 |
---* |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
September 17, 1962 |
Georgia |
Terrell |
Dawson |
an African-American church was burned down with three white men sentenced for the arson |
16 |
---* |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
September 25, 1962 |
Georgia |
Bibb |
Macon |
another black church is burned down. |
16 |
King Jr., Dr. Martin LutherM |
|
male |
--- |
September 28, 1962 |
Alabama |
Jefferson |
Birmingham |
a man attacked King at a convention punching him in the mouth |
4 |
Guihard, PaulM, U |
|
male |
abt 30 |
September 30, 1962 |
Mississippi |
Lafayette |
Oxford |
shot at a distance of less than one foot; essentially the newspaper reporter was executed |
1, 7, 10, 12, 13 |
Gunter, Ray |
n/a |
male |
23 |
September 30, 1962 |
Mississippi |
Lafayette |
Oxford |
shot; bystander during the riot at the University of Mississipi |
7 |
Tucker, Mr. |
n/a |
male |
--- |
September 1962 |
Mississippi |
Sunflower |
Ruleville |
16 bullets fired into his home; survived |
4 |
Tucker, Mrs. |
n/a |
female |
--- |
September 1962 |
Mississippi |
Sunflower |
Ruleville |
16 bullets fired into her home; survived |
4 |
Burks, Marylene |
n/a |
female |
"young" |
September 1962 |
Mississippi |
Sunflower |
Ruleville |
shot in the head, survived |
3 |
Hillet, Vivian |
n/a |
female |
"young" |
September 1962 |
Mississippi |
Sunflower |
Ruleville |
shot in the arms and legs; survived |
3 |
Hall, A.C.F, U |
n/a |
male |
"youth" |
October 11, 1962 |
Georgia |
Bibb |
Macon |
shot by police in the back while running away prompting a 1500 person march on city hall |
11, 12, 13 |
--- |
n/a |
male |
--- |
October 13, 1962 |
Alabama |
Jefferson |
Birmingham |
beaten by the Klan; survived |
5 |
--- |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
December 14, 1962 |
Alabama |
Jefferson |
Birmingham |
New Bethel Baptist Church bombed by the Klan |
4, 5 |
Meredith, Willie Lou |
|
female |
"teenaged" |
December 24, 1962 |
Mississippi |
Attala |
Kosciusko |
a shotgun blast nearly missed her as she sat in her home |
7 |
Maxwell, SylvesterF, U |
n/a |
male |
--- |
January 17, 1963 |
Mississippi |
Madison |
Canton |
his body was found castrated and mutilated |
11, 13 |
four SNCC workers |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
March 6, 1963 |
Mississippi |
Leflore |
Greenwood |
2 shotgun blasts fired at them while in a parked car; all survived with just minor cuts |
3, 7 |
Henry, Aaron |
|
male |
--- |
March 13, 1963 |
Mississippi |
Coahoma |
Clarksdale |
home hit with gasoline bombs; survived |
3, 7 |
--- |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
March 24, 1963 |
Alabama |
Jefferson |
Birmingham |
two injured in Klan bombing of an African-American's home |
5 |
--- |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
March 24, 1963 |
Mississippi |
Leflore |
Greenwood |
SNCC headquarters was burned |
3, 7 |
Greene, Dewey |
n/a |
male |
--- |
March 26, 1963 |
Mississippi |
Leflore |
Greenwood |
"buckshot" fired into his front door and a window where his 6 children slept; all survived |
3 |
Hughes, Matthew |
n/a |
male |
--- |
March 27,1963 |
Mississippi |
Leflore |
Greenwood |
bit by a police dog in a voter registration march; survived |
3 |
Tucker, Rev. David L. |
n/a |
male |
"young" |
March 28, 1963 |
Mississippi |
Leflore |
Greenwood |
bit by a police dog marching back to his chapel from city hall; survived |
3 |
--- |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
March 1963 |
Mississippi |
Leflore |
Greenwood |
two shotgun blasts fired at the home of an African-American student who had applied to the University; survived |
7 |
Moore, William LewisM, U |
|
male |
abt 36 |
April 23, 1963 |
Alabama |
Etowah |
Attalla |
shot |
1, 10, 13 |
Turnbow, Hartman |
n/a |
male |
--- |
May 9, 1963 |
Mississippi |
Holmes |
--- |
home firebombed by three Molotov cocktails and beaten; survived |
1, 3, 5 |
Turnbow, wife of Hartman |
n/a |
female |
--- |
May 9, 1963 |
Mississippi |
Holmes |
--- |
home firebombed; survived |
1, 3 |
Turnbow, daughter of Hartman |
n/a |
female |
--- |
May 9, 1963 |
Mississippi |
Holmes |
--- |
home firebombed; survived |
1, 3 |
King, Rev. A.D. |
n/a |
male |
--- |
May 11, 1963 |
Alabama |
Jefferson |
Birmingham |
home bombed by the Klan; survived |
4, 5 |
Gaston, A.G. |
|
--- |
--- |
May 11, 1963 |
Alabama |
Jefferson |
Birmingham |
A.G. Gaston's Motel bombed by the Klan |
4, 5 |
--- |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
May 12, 1963 |
Alabama |
Calhoun |
Anniston |
homes of two African-Americans shot upon by the Klan |
5 |
Henry, Aaron |
|
male |
--- |
May 1963 |
Mississippi |
Coahoma |
Clarksdale |
his drugstore was rocked by an explosion that tore a hole in the roof |
5 |
Lovett, Willie Joe* |
n/a |
male |
23 |
mid-1963 |
Mississippi |
Holmes |
Tchula |
the Civil Rights activist was killed |
17 |
Henry, Aaron |
|
male |
--- |
June 9, 1963 |
Mississippi |
Coahoma |
Clarksdale |
broke the windows of his pharmacy |
3 |
Johnson, June |
n/a |
female |
"teenager" |
June 9, 1963 |
Mississippi |
Montgomery |
Winona |
beaten and clubbed by three police officers and another man; survived |
3 |
Ponder, Annelle |
n/a |
female |
twenties |
June 9, 1963 |
Mississippi |
Montgomery |
Winona |
head bloodied and tooth chipped by a belt, fists and blackjacks used by police; survived |
3 |
West, James |
n/a |
male |
--- |
June 9, 1963 |
Mississippi |
Montgomery |
Winona |
beaten by a police officer and by black prisoners forced to help; survived |
3 |
Hamer, Fannie Lou |
|
female |
--- |
June 9, 1963 |
Mississippi |
Montgomery |
Winona |
beaten along with others by coerced black inmates; survived |
3 |
Evers, MedgarM |
|
male |
abt 38 |
June 12, 1963 |
Mississippi |
Rankin, Madison, or Hinds |
Jackson |
shot in front of his home by a segregationist |
1, 3, 10, 12, 16 |
--- |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
June 18, 1963 |
Arkansas |
Arkansas |
Gillett |
African-American church dynamited by the Klan |
5 |
--- |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
June 18, 1963 |
Mississippi |
Harrison |
Gulfport |
an African-American doctor's office was bombed by the Klan, he was also an NAACP chapter president |
5 |
four African-American men |
n/a |
male |
--- |
June 30, 1963 |
Mississippi |
Rankin, Madison, or Hinds |
Jackson |
the Klan bombed a home, those inside escaped injury |
5 |
Kennard, Clyde |
|
male |
abt 35 |
July 4, 1963 |
Mississippi |
Forrest or Lamar |
Hattiesburg |
jailed for four years after being framed for stealing some chicken feed, he died of cancer for which he had received completely
inadequate health treatment while still in jail |
3, 12 |
Anderson, Andrew LeeF, U |
n/a |
male |
--- |
July 17, 1963 |
Arkansas |
Crittenden |
Marion |
killed by a group of men including sheriff's deputies |
11, 12, 13 |
five African-Americans |
n/a |
--- |
"teenagers" |
July 24, 1963 |
Mississippi |
Madison |
Canton |
shotgun fired at the teens who were active in the movement; all survived |
3 |
Shores, Arthur D. |
|
male |
--- |
August 21, 1963 |
Alabama |
Jefferson |
Birmingham |
home bombed by the Klan; survived |
4, 5 |
--- |
n/a |
female |
abt 18 |
August 26, 1963 |
South Carolina |
Richland |
Columbia |
Klan bombed the home of a student set to enter Univ. of South Carolina; survived |
5 |
Shores, Arthur D. |
|
male |
--- |
September 4, 1963 |
Alabama |
Jefferson |
Birmingham |
the Klan bombed his home a second time; survived |
4, 5 |
Coley, John |
n/a |
male |
20 |
September 4, 1963 |
Alabama |
Jefferson |
Birmingham |
shot near Arthur Shores' home during gunfire following the bombing |
4 |
Lymon, Thomas |
n/a |
male |
35 |
September 4, 1963 |
Alabama |
Jefferson |
Birmingham |
shot in the head by a shotgun during gunfire following the bombing; survived |
4 |
Gaston, A.G. |
|
male |
--- |
September 8, 1963 |
Alabama |
Jefferson |
Birmingham |
home bombed by the Klan, survived |
5 |
Collins, Addie MaeM |
|
female |
14 |
September 15, 1963 |
Alabama |
Jefferson |
Birmingham |
bombing at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church |
1, 4, 10, 12 |
McNair, DeniseM |
|
female |
11 |
September 15, 1963 |
Alabama |
Jefferson |
Birmingham |
bombing at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church |
1, 4, 10, 12 |
Wesley, CynthiaM |
|
female |
14 |
September 15, 1963 |
Alabama |
Jefferson |
Birmingham |
bombing at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church |
1, 4, 10, 12 |
Robertson, CaroleM |
|
female |
14 |
September 15, 1963 |
Alabama |
Jefferson |
Birmingham |
bombing at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church |
1, 4, 10, 12 |
twenty-one people |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
September 15, 1963 |
Alabama |
Jefferson |
Birmingham |
Twenty-one other people were injured in the bombing at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. |
|
Ware, Virgil LamarM, U |
|
male |
13 |
September 15 (23), 1963 |
Alabama |
Jefferson |
Birmingham |
shot by a white Eagle Scout who was a straight-A student who had just left a pro-segregation rally |
1, 4, 10, 12, 13 |
Robinson, JohnnieF, U |
n/a |
male |
16 |
September 15, 1963 |
Alabama |
Jefferson |
Alabama |
shot in the back by a police officer after allegedly throwing stones at a car |
4, 11, 12, 13 |
four African-Americans, unidentified |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
September 18, 1963 |
Florida |
St. John's |
St. Augustine |
beaten, one hospitalized for 14 days; all survived |
5 |
--- |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
September 25, 1963 |
Alabama |
Jefferson |
Birmingham |
2 bombs set off by the Klan in an African-American neighborhood |
5 |
Jells, Ernest (Earnest)F, U |
n/a |
male |
"youth" |
October 20, 1963 |
Mississippi |
Coahoma |
Clarksdale |
accused of stealing a banana and then pointing a rifle at officers in pursuit of him |
11, 13 |
Payne, Bruce |
n/a |
male |
21 |
late October 1963 |
Mississippi |
Claiborne |
Port Gibson |
assaulted by four white men while at a gas station; survived |
3 |
Payne, Bruce and Greene, George |
n/a |
male |
21 and 20 |
late October 1963 |
Mississippi |
Adams |
Natchez |
run off the road and fired upon four times while in their car; survived |
3 |
--- |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
November 16, 1963 |
Alabama |
Tuscaloosa |
Tuscaloosa |
two bombs exploded in an African-American neighborhood by the Klan |
5 |
--- |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
November 19, 1963 |
Alabama |
Tuscaloosa |
Tuscaloosa |
the Klan bombed a dormitory area at the University of Alabama |
5 |
--- |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
December 8, 1963 |
Georgia |
Terrell |
Dawson |
the Klan shot and bombed an African-American voter-registration worker's home; survived |
5 |
Guyot, Lawrence |
n/a |
male |
--- |
1963 |
Mississippi |
Montgomery |
Winona |
beaten by police; survived |
3 |
Moses, Bob |
n/a |
male |
--- |
1963 |
Mississippi |
--- |
--- |
thirteen bullets were fired into Moses' car while he was in it; he escaped injury |
4 |
--- |
n/a |
male |
14 |
early January 1964 |
Mississippi |
Pike |
McComb |
the Klan fired into 6 African-American businesses and 2 homes |
3 |
Chase, Oscar |
n/a |
male |
--- |
January 22, 1964 |
Mississippi |
Forrest or Lamar |
Hattiesburg |
beaten by a white cellmate |
3 |
--- |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
January 25, 1964 |
Georgia |
Fulton, DeKalb, or Cobb |
Atlanta |
Klan members fought with students at a Civil Rights demonstration |
5 |
Allen, Louis (Lewis)M, U |
|
male |
abt 45 |
January 31, 1964 |
Mississippi |
Amite |
Liberty |
shot in the face with "two loads of buckshot" |
1, 3, 10, 12, 13 |
Whitley, Alfred |
n/a |
male |
--- |
February 14, 1964 |
Mississippi |
Adams |
--- |
kidnapped and whipped |
3 |
Curtis, Archie and another man |
n/a |
male |
--- |
February 15, 1964 |
Mississippi |
Adams |
Natchez |
kidnapped, stripped, and whipped; survived |
3 |
--- |
n/a |
male |
6 |
February 16, 1964 |
Florida |
Duval |
Jacksonville |
Klan members bombed the home of a boy who integrated an all-white school; survived |
5 |
Walker, Clinton (Clifton)F, U |
|
male |
--- |
February 28 (29), 1964 |
Mississippi |
Adams |
Woodville |
shot in the back with a rifle and a shotgun at close range; alternately, with multiple shotgun blasts |
3, 11, 12, 13 |
Russell, Leonard |
n/a |
male |
--- |
February 1964 |
Mississippi |
Adams |
--- |
bombed the union activist's home; survived |
3 |
Caston, Silas (Ernest)F, U |
n/a |
male |
20 |
March 1, 1964 |
Mississippi |
Hinds |
Jackson |
shot by a police officer |
11, 12, 13 |
Chappell, Johnnie MaeM, U |
n/a |
female |
--- |
March 23, 1964 |
Florida |
Duval |
Jacksonville |
shot as she walked along a roadside |
10, 13 |
Klunder, Rev. BruceM, U |
|
male |
abt 27 |
April (March) 7, 1964 |
Ohio |
Cuyahoga |
Cleveland |
crushed by a bulldozer2 |
1, 10, 13 |
--- |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
April 18, 1964 |
Alabama |
Macon |
Notasulga |
the Klan burned the Macon County High School |
5 |
--- |
n/a |
male |
--- |
April 18, 1964 |
Louisiana |
Washington |
Bogalusa |
the Klan kidnapped a man beating him with a pistol and flogging him; survived |
5 |
Bob Wagner |
n/a |
male |
--- |
April 18, 1964 |
Louisiana |
East Feliciana |
Jackson |
the Klan beat him. Mr. Wagner was a journalist; survived |
5 |
--- |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
April 1964 |
Mississippi |
Leflore |
greenwood |
shots fired at three homes of movement supporters |
3 |
Moore, Charles Edward (Eddie)M, U |
|
male |
20 (19) |
May 2, 1964 |
Mississippi |
Franklin |
Meadville |
beaten, whipped and drowned; discovered on July 12th |
1, 3, 5, 10, 12, 13 |
Dee, Henry HezekiahM, U |
|
male |
21 (19) |
May 2, 1964 |
Mississippi |
Franklin |
Meadville/Parker's Landing |
beaten, whipped and drowned; discovered on July 12th |
1, 3, 5, 10, 12, 13 |
--- |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
May 29, 1964 |
Florida |
St. Johns |
St. Augustine |
night riders shot up a home and car |
5 |
Williams, Otha |
n/a |
male |
--- |
May 30, 1964 |
Mississippi |
Madison |
Canton |
beaten severely by police on a back road; survived |
3 |
--- |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
June 3, 1964 |
Mississippi |
Madison, Rankin or Hinds |
Jackson |
several workers injured as the COFO office was shot up; survived |
3 |
Black, James |
n/a |
male |
--- |
June 8, 1964 |
Mississippi |
Lowndes |
near Columbus |
beaten severely by a state highway patrolman |
3 |
--- |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
June 8, 1964 |
Mississippi |
Madison |
Canton |
CORE headquarters had a bomb attempt that exploded outside |
3 |
two men and one woman, all African-American |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
early June 1964 |
Mississippi |
Wilkinson |
Woodville |
officially carbon monoxide poisoning but the African-American mortician said it was "buckshot" |
3 |
--- |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
June 16, 1964 |
Mississippi |
Neshoba |
Philadelphia |
the Klan beat multiple African-Americans and burned the Mt. Zion Methodist church to the ground |
5 |
--- |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
June 17, 1964 |
Mississippi |
Rankin, Madison or Hinds |
Jackson |
an African-American was seized and flogged by the Klan |
5 |
--- |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
June 20, 1964 |
Mississippi |
Pike |
McComb |
5 bombs set off3 |
5 |
Schwerner, MichaelM, U |
|
male |
24 |
June 21, 1964 |
Mississippi |
Neshoba |
Philadelphia |
shot once |
1, 3, 10, 12, 13 |
Goodman, AndrewM, U |
|
male |
abt 21 |
June 21, 1964 |
Mississippi |
Neshoba |
Philadelphia |
shot once |
1, 3, 10, 12, 13 |
Chaney, JamesM, U |
|
male |
21 |
June 21, 1964 |
Mississippi |
Neshoba |
Philadelphia |
shot three times, once in the head and twice in the chest |
1, 3, 10, 12, 13 |
--- |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
June 21, 1964 |
Missouri |
Stone or Taney |
Branson |
Sweet Rest Church of Christ was bombed by the Klan |
5 |
Bryant, C.C. and more |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
June 22, 1964 |
Mississippi |
Pike |
McComb |
the Klan bombed the homes of three African-American Civil Rights activists; survived |
3, 5 |
--- |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
June 25, 1964 |
Mississippi |
Sunflower |
Ruleville |
the Klan bombed an African-American church |
5 |
--- |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
June 25, 1964 |
Mississippi |
Neshoba |
Longdale |
the Klan bombed an African-American church |
5 |
Taylor, IsaiahF, U |
n/a |
male |
--- |
June 26, 1964 |
Mississippi |
Sunflower |
Ruleville |
shot by a police officer |
11, 13 |
--- |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
June 27, 1964 |
Mississippi |
Pike |
McComb |
the Klan threw a Molotov cocktail at the McComb newspaper's front door |
5 |
McGhee, Silas |
n/a |
male |
21 |
July 5, 1964 |
Mississippi |
Leflore |
Greenwood |
beaten by 15 people for trying to integrate a movie theater; survived |
3, 30 |
Hayes, Curtis |
n/a |
male |
--- |
July 7, 1964 |
Mississippi |
Pike |
McComb |
knocked unconscious and cut by glass from a bomb thrown at a Freedom House; survived |
3, 5 |
Sweeney, Dennis |
n/a |
male |
--- |
July 7, 1964 |
Mississippi |
Pike |
McComb |
concussed from a bomb thrown at a Freedom House; survived |
3, 5 |
Greenwood, JasperF, U |
n/a |
male |
--- |
July 10, 1964 |
Mississippi |
Warren |
Vicksburg |
shot to death in his car |
11, 13 |
Penn, Lt. Col. LemuelM |
|
male |
48 |
July 11, 1964 |
Georgia |
Madison |
Colbert |
shot and killed by four Klansmen of the United Klans of America as he drove home from U.S. Army Reserves training |
1, 3, 10, 27, 51 |
--- |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
July 12, 1964 |
Mississippi |
Adams |
Natchez |
Klan arsonists burned down two African-American churches |
5 |
Edwards, JosephU |
n/a |
male |
--- |
July 12, 1964 |
Louisiana |
Concordia |
Vidalia |
--- |
13 |
--- |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
July 13, 1964 |
North Carolina |
Wilson |
Elm City |
two men arrested while attempting to burn an African-American church |
5 |
--- |
n/a |
male |
--- |
July 14, 1964 |
Mississippi |
Copiah |
Wesson |
the Klan beat a gas station owner who refused to join them and hired African-American workers; survived |
5 |
McGhee, Silas |
n/a |
male |
21 |
July 16, 1964 |
Mississippi |
Leflore |
Greenwood |
abducted and beaten with a wooden board and a pipe while in line to register to vote; survived |
3 |
Powell, JimmyF, U |
n/a |
male |
15 |
July 16, 1964 |
New York |
Kings |
Brooklyn |
shot to death by a police officer sparking riots in Harlem, Bedford-Stuyvesant, and Rochester |
11, 13, 16 |
McGhee, Jake |
n/a |
male |
|
July 17, 1964 |
Mississippi |
Leflore |
Greenwood |
eye injured by glass from a broken car window due to a mob throwing a bottle at it; survived |
3 |
--- |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
July 17, 1964 |
Mississippi |
Pike |
McComb |
Zion Hill Freewil Baptist Church was burned and two men beaten; survived |
5 |
--- |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
July 19, 1964 |
Mississippi |
Madison |
--- |
Christian Union Baptist Church destroyed by Klan arsonists |
5 |
Samstein, Mendy |
n/a |
male |
--- |
July 19, 1964 |
Mississippi |
Pike |
McComb |
assaulted; survived |
3 |
--- |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
July 24, 1964 |
Florida |
St. Johns |
St. Augustine |
the Klan firebombed a restaurant |
5 |
Bryant, Charlie and Ora |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
abt July 26, 1964 |
Mississippi |
Pike |
McComb |
bomb attempt at their home |
3 |
--- |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
July 30, 1964 |
Mississippi |
Lauderdale |
Meridian |
Mount Moriah Baptist Church burned by the Klan |
5 |
--- |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
July 31, 1964 |
Mississippi |
Rankin |
Brandon |
Pleasant Grove Baptist Church burned to its foundation by the Klan |
5 |
--- |
n/a |
male |
"teenager" |
July 1964 |
Mississippi |
--- |
--- |
never identified; found in the Big Black River wearing a CORE t-shirt |
3 |
Montgomery, Nehemiah (Neimiah)F, U |
n/a |
male |
60 |
August 10, 1964 |
Mississippi |
Bolivar |
Merigold |
shot by police after allegedly refusing to pay for gas |
11, 12, 13 |
Lewis, Pete |
n/a |
male |
65 |
August 14, 1964 |
Mississippi |
Pike |
McComb |
bombed the supermarket of the movement supporter; survived |
3 |
--- |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
August 15, 1964 |
Mississippi |
Adams |
Natchez |
an African-American bar was dynamited by the Klan |
5 |
--- |
n/a |
male |
--- |
August 15, 1964 |
Mississippi |
Leflore |
Greenwood |
the Klan shot an African-American who had been severley beaten a month earlier |
5 |
--- |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
August 15, 1964 |
Mississippi |
Madison, Rankin or Hinds |
Jackson |
an African-American was shot and a "white" Civil Rights worker was clubbed |
5 |
--- |
n/a |
female |
--- |
August 27, 1964 |
Mississippi |
Madison, Rankin or Hinds |
Jackson |
the Klan bombed the newspaper office of a Pulitzer-Prize winning anti-Klan editor; survived |
3, 5 |
Dillon, Willie and Matti |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
August 28, 1964 |
Mississippi |
Pike |
McComb |
an explosion occurred near their front door; 9 sticks of dynamite did not explode; survived |
3 |
Miller, James AndrewF, U |
n/a |
male |
--- |
August 30, 1964 |
Georgia |
Butts |
Jackson |
shot by whites a few days after being beaten |
11, 13 |
--- |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
August 1964 |
Mississippi |
Holmes |
--- |
a SNCC car was burned, and the SNCC center was victim of a bomb attempt |
3 |
McGhee, Silas |
n/a |
male |
21 |
August 1964 |
Mississippi |
Leflore |
Greenwood |
shot in the head, most likely by a police officer; survived |
3 |
two CORE volunteers |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
Summer 1964 |
Mississippi |
Leake |
--- |
beaten inside of a doctor's office when trying to seek treatment; survived |
3 |
Hudson, Dovie |
n/a |
female |
--- |
Summer 1964 |
Mississippi |
Leake |
--- |
bomb attempted to be placed in her mailbox, among other victims; survived |
3 |
--- |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
late Summer 1964 |
Mississippi |
Adams |
--- |
home next to SNCC workers' home was bombed |
3 |
Stone, Bob |
n/a |
male |
--- |
September 2, 1964 |
Mississippi |
Pike |
McComb |
the COFO volunteer was assaulted; survived |
3 |
--- |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
September 6, 1964 |
Mississippi |
Madison |
Canton |
the Klan dynamited a "white"-owned grocery store in an African-American neighborhood |
5 |
--- |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
September 7, 1964 |
Mississippi |
Pike |
Summit |
three bombs set off against African-American property by the Klan; one was a minister another a school principal, and the other a
a grocery store owner but none were active in the movement |
3, 5 |
Oarsby, Herbert (Orsby, Hubert)F, U |
n/a |
male |
14 |
September 7, 1964 |
Mississippi |
Madison/Holmes |
Canton/Pickens |
found in the Black River on September 10th |
1, 11, 12, 13 |
Baker, Rev. James |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
September 9, 1964 |
Mississippi |
Pike |
McComb (near Summit) |
the Klan dynamited the home of an African-American minister not involved in the movement; survived |
3, 5 |
--- |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
September 17, 1964 |
Mississippi |
Madison |
Canton |
The Klan burned two African-American churches used for voter registration |
5 |
--- |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
September 19, 1964 |
Mississippi |
Neshoba |
Philadelphia |
two small churches burned by the Klan |
5 |
Quin, Aylene |
n/a |
female |
--- |
September 20, 1964 |
Mississippi |
Pike |
McComb |
home of an African-American Civil Rights worker bombed; survived |
3, 5 |
Quin, Anthony |
n/a |
male |
4 |
September 20, 1964 |
Mississippi |
Pike |
McComb |
pinned to his bed by the fallen ceiling in the bombing but not injured; survived |
3, 5 |
--- |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
September 21, 1964 |
Mississippi |
Pike |
McComb |
the Klan damaged a church and a home with dynamite |
5 |
--- |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
September 23, 1964 |
Mississippi |
Pike |
McComb |
a bomb thrown at the home of a former African-American politician |
5 |
--- |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
September 25, 1964 |
Mississippi |
Adams |
Natchez |
the Klan bombed the home of the mayor and the home of an African-American |
5 |
Bryant, ??? |
n/a |
male |
--- |
September 1964 |
Mississippi |
Pike |
McComb |
the brother of C.C. Bryant, local NAACP President, had his home dynamited |
3 |
Nosser, John |
n/a |
male |
--- |
September 1964 |
Mississippi |
Adams |
Natchez |
the Mayor of Nathez's home was bombed by the Klan as he was "too moderate" on race relations |
3 |
Quin, Jacqueline |
n/a |
female |
9 |
September 1964 |
Mississippi |
Pike |
McComb |
an eardrum was punctured by the explosion from the bombing; survived |
3, 5 |
Brown, Bessie |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
October 4, 1964 |
Mississippi |
Warren |
Vicksburg |
the Klan dynamited an African-American church used for voter registration by COFO where she and her seven children lived;
all survived |
3, 5 |
--- |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
October 27, 1964 |
Mississippi |
Sunflower |
Indianola |
Indianola freedom school burned by arsonists |
3 |
King, Annie Mae |
n/a |
female |
60 |
October 28, 1964 |
Mississippi |
Sunflower |
near Indianola |
tear-gas bomb thrown through her window; she housed COFO workers; survived |
3 |
--- |
n/a |
male |
14 |
October 28, 1964 |
Mississippi |
Sunflower |
near Indianola |
injured by the tear-gas bomb thrown through Mrs. King's window; survived |
3 |
--- |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
October 31, 1964 |
Mississippi |
Tippah |
Ripley |
the Klan burned down the Antioch Baptist Church also used as a Freedom School |
5 |
Turnbow, Hartman |
n/a |
male |
--- |
October 1964 |
Mississippi |
Holmes |
--- |
shots fired into his home by night riders; survived |
3 |
Smith, Hazel Brannon |
|
female |
--- |
October 1964 |
Mississippi |
Rankin, Madison, or Hinds |
Jackson |
her newspaper offices were bombed; survived |
3 |
Sanders, I.S. |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
October 1964 |
Mississippi |
Rankin, Madison, or Hinds |
Jackson |
the NAACP leader's home was bombed; survived |
3 |
--- |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
November 17, 1964 |
Mississippi |
Jones |
Laurel |
a union official was kidnapped and whipped by the Klan; survived |
5 |
Andrews, FrankF, U |
n/a |
male |
--- |
November 28, 1964 |
Alabama |
Choctaw |
Lisman |
shot by a sheriff's deputy while allegedly attacking another deputy |
11, 13 |
--- |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
November 29, 1964 |
Alabama |
Montgomery |
Montgomery |
the Klan dynamited an African-American home |
5 |
Morris, FrankF, U |
n/a |
male |
51 |
December 10, 1964 |
Louisiana |
Concordia |
Ferriday |
killed by a gas stove explosion after being prevented from leaving a burning building the Klan had set on fire |
1, 5, 11, 12, 13 |
--- |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
December 13, 1964 |
Alabama |
Montgomery |
Montgomery |
a bomb exploded outside an African-American church |
5 |
Brown, Gene a.k.a. Evans, PheldF, U |
n/a |
male |
--- |
1964 |
Mississippi |
Madison |
Canton |
"kiled under mysterious circumstances" |
11, 13 |
--- |
n/a |
male |
--- |
1964 |
Georgia |
--- |
--- |
four members of the United Klans of America killed a black army reserve lieutenant returning to his home from training at Fort Benning |
31 |
Cano, JesseU |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
January 1, 1965 |
Florida |
Hernando |
Brooksville |
--- |
13 |
Brown, JessieF, U |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
January 13, 1965 |
Mississippi |
Montgomery |
Winona |
the NAACP alleged Brown was shot by a white farmer |
11, 13 |
--- |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
January 17, 1965 |
Louisiana |
Jackson |
Jonesboro |
two African-American churches destroyed by arson |
5 |
Triggs, Selma (Saleam)F, U |
n/a |
female |
--- |
January 21, 1965 |
Mississippi |
Forrest or Lamar |
Hattiesburg |
burned to death |
11, 13 |
Shelby, OllieU |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
January 22, 1965 |
Mississippi |
Hinds |
--- |
--- |
13 |
--- |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
January 23, 1965 |
North Carolina |
Craven |
New Bern |
the Klan bombed a funeral home and two cars during a Civil Rights meeting |
5 |
Metcalfe, George |
n/a |
male |
53 |
late January 1965 |
Mississippi |
Adams |
Natchez |
shot fired through the window of his home |
3 |
Scott Jr., MarshallF, U |
n/a |
male |
--- |
January 1965 |
Louisiana |
Orleans |
New Orleans |
died in solitary confinement with no medical attention |
11, 13 |
El-hajj Malik El-Shabazz (Malcolm X)* |
|
male |
39 |
February 14, 1965 |
New York |
--- |
--- |
his home was fire-bombed |
17 |
two African-Americans |
n/a |
--- |
"youths" |
February 16, 1965 |
Alabama |
Mobile |
Mobile |
wounded by shotgun blasts |
5 |
Lee, Willie Henry "John"F, U |
n/a |
male |
24 |
February 25, 1965 |
Mississippi |
Rankin |
Canton?? |
beaten but autopsy showed "strangulation from gas" |
11, 12, 13 |
Jackson, Jimmie LeeM, U |
|
male |
26 |
February 26, 1965 |
Alabama |
Perry |
Marion |
beaten and shot by state troopers while trying to protect his mother and grandmother during a civil rights march on Feb. 18th;
died on Feb. 26th |
1, 10, 12, 13, 30 |
Rasberry, DonaldF, U |
n/a |
male |
--- |
February 27, 1965 |
Mississippi |
Chickasaw |
Okolona |
shot by his plantation boss |
11, 12, 13 |
--- |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
February 28, 1965 |
Alabama |
Lowndes |
--- |
armed men, during church services, threatened a minister's life if he did not leave the county by sundown |
5 |
--- |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
March 5, 1965 |
Mississippi |
Sunflower |
Indianola |
the Klan burned a Freedom School/library to the ground |
5 |
Reeb, Rev. JamesM, U |
|
male |
abt 38 |
March 8 (11), 19654 |
Alabama |
Dallas |
Selma |
beaten |
1, 5, 10, 13 |
--- |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
March 21, 1965 |
Mississippi |
Warren |
Vicksburg |
Molotov cocktail thrown into a desegregated cafe |
5 |
--- |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
March 21, 1965 |
Alabama |
Jefferson |
Birmingham |
four time-bombs discovered in African-American neighborhoods |
5 |
--- |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
March 22, 1965 |
Alabama |
Jefferson |
Birmingham |
two more time-bombs discovered n African-American neighborhoods |
5 |
Liuzzo, Viola GreggM |
|
female |
abt 40 |
March 25, 1965 |
Alabama |
Dallas |
Lowndesboro/Selma |
shot by Klansen passing in a car as she was driving |
1, 5, 10 |
Miller, HosieU |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
March 25, 1965 |
Georgia |
Baker |
Newton |
--- |
13 |
--- |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
March 29, 1965 |
Mississippi |
Lauderdale |
Meridian |
fire bombs thrown at two African-American churches |
5 |
--- |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
April 1, 1965 |
Alabama |
Jefferson |
Birmingham |
three bombs set by the Klan, one destroyed the home of an African-American and two more were found at the homes of
the mayor and a city councilwoman |
5 |
---* |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
April 1965 |
Michigan |
Wayne |
Detroit |
twenty-five crosses were burned at black residences in integrated neighborhoods |
26 |
Moore, OnealM, U |
|
male |
34 |
June 2, 1965 |
Louisiana |
Washington |
Varnado |
the deputy was shot while on patrol by gunfire from a car |
1, 10, 12, 13 |
Rogers, Creed |
n/a |
male |
--- |
June 2, 1965 |
Louisiana |
Washington |
Varnado |
the deputy was shot while on patrol by gunfire from a car; survived |
10 |
Waymers, JamesF, U |
n/a |
male |
--- |
July 10, 1965 |
South Carolina |
Allendale |
Allendale |
shot by a white man who alleged self-defense |
11, 13 |
Wilder, John Wesley (Robert)F, U |
n/a |
male |
--- |
July 17, 1965 |
Louisiana |
Lincoln |
Ruston |
killed by a police officer |
11, 13 |
Brewster, WillieM |
|
male |
abt 39 |
July 18, 19655 |
Alabama |
Calhoun |
Anniston |
shot by the neo-Nazi group the NSRP on his way home from work |
1, 10 |
Piercefield, WilliamU |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
July 24, 1965 |
Louisiana |
Concordia |
--- |
--- |
13 |
Queen, JohnnyF, U |
n/a |
male |
--- |
August 8, 1965 |
Mississippi |
Jefferson |
Fayette |
most likely shot by an off-duty white constable |
11, 13 |
Thomas, Freddie LeeF, U |
n/a |
male |
16 |
August 19, 1965 |
Mississippi |
Leflore |
Sidon |
possibly murdered as a warning against black voter registration |
11, 13 |
Daniels, Jonathan MyrickM, U |
|
male |
26 |
August 20, 1965 |
Alabama |
Lowndes |
Haynesville |
the Civil Rights activist who had been in jail for a peaceful protest was shot point-blank with a 12-gauge shotgun by a
part-time deputy sheriff, Tom Coleman, moments after his release |
1, 10, 13, 23 |
Morrisroe, Fr. Richard |
n/a |
male |
--- |
August, 20 1965 |
Alabama |
Lowndes |
Haynesville |
the Civil Rights activist who had been in jail for a peaceful protest was shot by Deputy sheriff Tom Coleman; survived |
1, 23 |
Hill, Arthur JamesF, U |
n/a |
male |
--- |
August 20, 1965 |
Georgia |
Carroll or Douglas |
Villa Rica |
shot during an argument with whites |
11, 13 |
Christian, ThadU |
n/a |
male |
54 |
August 26 (28), 1965 |
Alabama |
Calhoun |
Anniston |
shotgun blast while walking home from fishing |
12, 13 |
Metcalfe, George |
n/a |
male |
53 |
August 27, 1965 |
Mississippi |
Adams |
Natchez |
car bomb caused fractures in an arm and leg, multiple lacerations and a serious eye injury; survived |
3 |
Griffin, Jimmie LeeF, U |
n/a |
male |
--- |
September 24, 1965 |
Mississippi |
Oktibbeha |
Sturgis |
killed in a hit and run, but run over at least twice |
11, 13 |
McNair, RobertF, U |
n/a |
male |
--- |
November 6, 1965 |
Mississippi |
Rankin |
Pelahatchie |
shot by a town constable |
11, 12, 13 |
Power, Lillie Dell (Powers, Lillie Bell) |
n/a |
female |
14 |
November 10, 1965 |
Mississippi |
Oktibbeha |
Starkville |
shot while in a car with other black youths |
12 |
Younge Jr., Samuel LeamonM, U |
|
male |
abt 22 |
January 3, 1966 |
Alabama |
Macon |
Tuskegee |
shot after an argument about segregated restrooms |
1, 10, 13, 30 |
Dahmer, Vernon FerdinandM |
|
male |
57 |
January 10, 1966 |
Mississippi |
Forrest |
Hattiesburg |
his home was shot up and firebombed; he fired back at the attackers while his wife and daughter escaped; his lungs
were irreparably damaged from inhaling smoke in the fire |
1, 3, 10, 12 |
Hamlett, AdlenaU |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
January 11, 1966 |
Mississippi |
Leflore |
Sidon |
--- |
13 |
Keglar, BirdieU |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
January 11, 1966 |
Mississippi |
Leflore |
Sidon |
--- |
13 |
Johnson, NathanU |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
May 8, 1966 |
Alabama |
Shelby |
Alabaster |
--- |
13 |
Meredith, James |
|
male |
32 |
June 6, 1966 |
Mississippi |
DeSoto |
Hernando |
shot three times with a shotgun while on a march from Memphis to Jackson; survived; the shooter was sentenced to five years
in prison mainly because the shooting was witnessed by the press |
3, 45 |
White, Ben ChesterM, U |
|
male |
67 |
June 10, 1966 |
Mississippi |
Adams |
Natchez |
shot by Klansmen who "thought they could divert attention from a civil rights
march by killing a black person" |
1, 3, 10, 12, 13 |
Stewart, Eddie JamesF, U |
n/a |
male |
--- |
July 9, 1966 |
Mississippi |
Copiah |
Crystal Springs (Jackson) |
beaten and shot while in police custody |
11, 13 |
Triggs, ClarenceM |
n/a |
male |
abt 24 |
July 30, 1966 |
Louisiana |
Washington |
Bogalusa |
shot through the head |
1, 10 |
Hampton, CollieF, U |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
August 14, 1966 |
Kentucky |
Clark |
Winchester |
shot by police officers |
11, 13 |
Varner, Hubert (Hulet)F, U |
n/a |
male |
16 |
September 10, 1966 |
Georgia |
Fulton or DeKalb |
Atlanta |
shot when someone fired into a group of African-American teenagers |
11, 13 |
Sigh, Richard* |
n/a |
male |
13 |
September 12, 1966 |
Mississippi |
Grenada |
Grenada |
his leg was broken by the mob challenging integration as he was beaten with clubs;one of about 30 children injured that day;
survived |
3 |
Harris, AlphonsoF, U |
n/a |
male |
--- |
December 1, 1966 |
Georgia |
Dougherty |
Albany |
killed |
11, 13 |
Dahmon, VincentF, U |
n/a |
male |
65 |
1966 |
Mississippi |
Adams |
Natchez |
shot in the head |
11, 13 |
Jackson, WharlestM, U |
|
male |
36 |
February 27, 1967 |
Mississippi |
Adams |
Natchez |
the local NAACP treasurer died when a bomb was planted in his car |
1, 3, 10, 12, 13 |
Brown, BenjaminM, U |
|
male |
22 |
May 12 (11), 1967 |
Mississippi |
Rankin, Madison, or Hinds |
Jackson |
shot by police who opened fire at a Jackson State College protest; once in the back and once in the back of the head |
1, 3, 10, 12, 13, 30 |
---* |
n/a |
male |
--- |
June 12, 1967 |
Michigan |
Wayne |
Detroit suburbs |
the black man, part of an interracial couple who had moved into a white neighborhood, had his home smoke-bombed by a mob of
about 80 people |
26 |
---* |
n/a |
female |
--- |
June 12, 1967 |
Michigan |
Wayne |
Detroit suburbs |
the white woman, part of an interracial couple who had moved into a white neighborhood, had his home smoke-bombed by a mob of
about 80 people |
26 |
Williamson, RodellF, U |
n/a |
male |
31 |
June (May) 20, 1967 |
Alabama |
Wilcox |
Camden |
found in the Alabama River |
1, 12, 13 |
Thomas, Mr. |
n/a |
male |
--- |
June 23, 1967 |
Michigan |
Wayne |
Detroit |
the man and his wife went to Rouge park in a white neighborhood where a mob of about 15 to 20 whites harassed them and
threatened to rape the woman; they shot the man three times, killing him; the woman miscarried due to the incident; no one
was charged despite six arrests
|
26 |
Thomas, Mrs. |
n/a |
female |
--- |
June 23, 1967 |
Michigan |
Wayne |
Detroit |
the woman and her husband went to Rouge park in a white neighborhood where a mob of about 15 to 20 whites harassed them and
threatened to rape the woman; they shot the man three times, killing him; the woman miscarried due to the incident; no one
was charged despite six arrests |
26 |
Brumfield, CarrieF, U |
n/a |
male |
--- |
September 12, 1967 |
Louisiana |
Washington |
Franklinton |
shot in the chest in his car |
11, 13 |
--- |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
Fall 1967 |
Mississippi |
Rankin, Madison, or Hinds |
Jackson |
the Klan bombed Temple Beth Israel |
3 |
--- |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
Fall 1967 |
Mississippi |
Rankin, Madison, or Hinds |
Jackson |
the Klan bombed the home of the Tougaloo College Academic Dean |
3 |
--- |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
Fall 1967 |
Mississippi |
Rankin, Madison, or Hinds |
Jackson |
the Klan bombed the home of a Jackson businessman |
3 |
--- |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
Fall 1967 |
Mississippi |
Rankin, Madison, or Hinds |
Jackson |
the Klan bombed the home of the Beth Israel rabbi |
3 |
Johnson, Rev. Allen |
n/a |
male |
--- |
November 15, 1967 |
Mississippi |
Jones |
Laurel |
the Klan bombed the home of the NAACP activist |
3 |
Motley, James EarlU |
|
male |
--- |
November 20, 1967 (1966) |
Alabama |
Elmore |
Wetumpka |
three severe blows to the head from a deputy; died while in custody |
11, 12, 13 |
Wooden, ArchieF, U |
n/a |
male |
16 |
December 25, 1967 |
Alabama |
Wilcox |
Camden |
bled to death in a ditch after falling on a sapling |
11, 13 |
Hammond, Samuel EphesiansM, U |
|
male |
abt 29 |
February 8, 1968 |
South Carolina |
Orangeburg |
Orangeburg |
shot during a college demonstration by police |
1, 10, 13 |
Middleton, Delano HermanM, U |
|
male |
abt 18 |
February 8, 1968 |
South Carolina |
Orangeburg |
Orangeburg |
shot during a college demonstration by police |
1, 10, 13 |
Smith, Henry EzekielM, U |
|
male |
abt 20 |
February 8, 1968 |
South Carolina |
Orangeburg |
Orangeburg |
shot during a college demonstration by police |
1, 10, 13 |
Payne, LarryF, U |
|
male |
16 |
March 28, 1968 |
Tennessee |
Shelby |
Memphis |
killed by a shotgun blast from a patrolman |
11, 12, 13 |
King Jr., Martin LutherM |
|
male |
abt 39 |
April 4, 1968 |
Tennessee |
Shelby |
Memphis |
assassinated (shot) |
1, 10 |
--- |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
Spring 1968 |
Mississippi |
Lauderdale |
Meridian |
a series of Klan bombings |
3 |
a police officer and a bystander |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
June 30, 1968 |
Mississippi |
Lauderdale |
Meridian |
shot by a Klan member who was bombing a Jewish businessman's home; survived |
3, 5 |
Jenkins, Carol |
|
female |
21 |
September 16, 1968 |
Indiana |
Morgan |
Marinsville |
stabbed with a screwdriver while selling encyclopedias door-to-door |
12 |
Vidal, Feipe Pagan |
n/a |
male |
--- |
December 1968 |
Florida |
--- |
near Miami |
the Puerto Rican immigrant had moved from New York to Florida based on false promises of higher wages and other perks; after a
week on the job he attemted to leave; a foreman "hacked him across the back and the shoulder" with a machete, he was denied medical
care and placed under guard |
24 |
Thomas, AnnU |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
April 8, 1969 |
Texas |
Bexar |
San Antonio |
--- |
13 |
Allen, Lillie Belle |
|
female |
27 |
July 21, 1969 |
Pennsylvania |
York |
York |
killed |
12 |
Pool, Rainey |
n/a |
male |
54 |
April 12, 1970 |
Mississippi |
Humphreys |
Louise |
fractured vertebrae and larynx; found in the Sunflower River |
12 |
--- |
n/a |
--- |
--- |
Fall 1971 |
Michigan |
Oakland |
Pontiac |
ten school buses bombed at the opening of the school year to protest busing for integration |
2 |
Salazar, Ruben* |
n/a |
male |
--- |
August 29, 1970 |
California |
Los Angeles |
Los Angeles |
the journalist who investigated police repression was knocked unconscious by a tear-gas cannister during a raid on a bar;
police refused to let anyone in the building to retrieve Salazar and he died two hours later |
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