Indigenous #1	male	June 1878	Arizona	---	Tom Ship's Ranch	two members of the Hualapai nation were hanged for murder	1
Indigenous #2	male	June 1878	Arizona	---	Tom Ship's Ranch	two members of the Hualapai nation were hanged for murder	1
Taylor, William	male	September 4, 1878	Ohio	Erie	Sandusky	the African-American man was beaten to death for rape and murder	1
Harris Sr., Dan	male	October 11, 1878	Indiana	Posey	Mt. Vernon	the African-American man was stabbed and mutilated for shooting and killing a deputy sheriff	1
Warren, Ed	male	October 11, 1878	Indiana	Posey	Mt. Vernon	the African-american was hanged for having "ravished white women"	1
Good, Jim	male	October 11, 1878	Indiana	Posey	Mt. Vernon	the African-american was hanged for having "ravished white women"	1
Chambers, William	male	October 11, 1878	Indiana	Posey	Mt. Vernon	the African-american was hanged for having "ravished white women"	1
Hopkins, Jeff	male	October 11, 1878	Indiana	Posey	Mt. Vernon	the African-american was hanged for having "ravished white women"	1
---	male	December 13, 1878	Arizona	La Paz	Planet (?)	the Hispanic male was hanged for attempted murder	1
---	male	Spring 1879	Kansas	Bourbon	Fort Scott	an African-American accused of rape was hanged and then burned in a public square	3
Kinder, Louis	male	February 1880	South Carolina	Colleton	---	a mob seized Kinder who was being charged with rape, and hanged him	10
Smith, James Webster	male	ca. April 15, 1880	New York	Orange	West Point	the first ever colored cadet in West Point's history was gagged, bound, beaten severely, and his ears were slit; other cadets claimed he did it himself	14
Ordona, Jose	male	March 15, 1881	Arizona	---	near the Gila River	the Hispanic male was hanged for horse theft	1, 4
Salcido, Rafael	male	March 15, 1881	Arizona	---	near the Gila River	the Hispanic male was lynched for horse theft but cause of death is unknown	1, 4
Davis, Christopher C.	male	November 21, 1881	Ohio	Athens	Athens	the African-American was hanged for assault	1
Fisher, Frank	male	April 30, 1882	Ohio	Crawford	Gallion	the African-American was hanged for assault of a young girl	1
---		Summer 1882	Illinois	Hardin	Elizabethtown	the African-American man was lynched by unknown means for an unknown offense	1
Thurber, Charles	male	October 24, 1882	North Dakota	Grand Forks	Grand Forks	the African-American man was hanged for assaulting a white woman	1
black #1	---	1882	Kansas	Douglas	Lawrence	three African-Americans were lynched after being accused of murder	3
black #2	---	1882	Kansas	Douglas	Lawrence	three African-Americans were lynched after being accused of murder	3
black #3	---	1882	Kansas	Douglas	Lawrence	three African-Americans were lynched after being accused of murder	3
Turner, Jack	male	1882	Alabama	---	---	Turner was lynched by Choctaw whites because he had run the Republican machine which gathered black voter support	15
Warner, Tillot	male	June 1883	Michigan	Cheboygan	Cheboygan	the African-American was hanged for the rape of an eight-year-old white girl by a mob of about 500; they hung him once trying to obtain a confession but he maintained his innocence and they hung him a second time until death	1, 7
"Howard"	male	July 6, 1883	Illinois	Pulaski	Mound City	the African-American man was hanged for an unknown offense	1
Harvey, William H. "Sam Joe"	male	August 25, 1883	Utah	Salt Lake	Salt Lake City	the African-American was hanged for murder of a police captain; his corpse was then dragged several blocks down the street	1, 5
Houston, Lewis	male	December 1883	Alabama	Jefferson	Birmingham	Houston was hanged by a mob after being taken from the Birmingham jail for rape; a week later a mob of hundreds tried to do the sme to Wesley Posey but was stopped by 85 Alabama National Guard troops though the situation nearly broke into a large gunfight	10
Tucker, Annie	female	1883	Alabama	Jefferson	Birmingham	lashed 56 times after running away from a prison to avoid forced slavery under convict leasing laws	12
Segal, George	male	April 22, 1884	Utah	Weber	Ogden	the Japanese-American was hanged for murdering a woman	1, 5
Padillo, Luciano	male	August 23, 1884	Nebraska	Saline	near Crete	the Hispanic man was lynched in an unknown manner for rape	1
_____, Jesus	male	September 12, 1884	Arizona	Cochise	Sulphur Springs Valley	the Hispanic male was hanged for murder	1
---	male	September 1884	Washington	---	Colville Indian Agency	the Indigenous man was hanged for an "outrage" upon a white woman	1
Hallis, Ross	male	August 25, 1885	South Dakota	Meade	Sturgis	the African-American was hanged for murder	1
Chinese #1	male	September 7, 1885	Washington	---	in the Squak Valley	three Chinese miners were shot to death by white and Native American farmworkers over resentment about high Chinese wages	17
Chinese #2	male	September 7, 1885	Washington	---	in the Squak Valley	three Chinese miners were shot to death by white and Native American farmworkers over resentment about high Chinese wages	17
Chinese #3	male	September 7, 1885	Washington	---	in the Squak Valley	three Chinese miners were shot to death by white and Native American farmworkers over resentment about high Chinese wages	17
Chinese #1	---	September 21, 1885	Idaho	Shoshone	Pierce City	five Chinese were hanged; two for murder and the other three were "undesirables" including a prostitute; they were seized from the sheriff by masked men	1, 2
Chinese #2	---	September 21, 1885	Idaho	Shoshone	Pierce City	five Chinese were hanged; two for murder and the other three were "undesirables" including a prostitute; they were seized from the sheriff by masked men	1, 2
Chinese #3	---	September 21, 1885	Idaho	Shoshone	Pierce City	five Chinese were hanged; two for murder and the other three were "undesirables" including a prostitute; they were seized from the sheriff by masked men	1, 2
Chinese #4	---	September 21, 1885	Idaho	Shoshone	Pierce City	five Chinese were hanged; two for murder and the other three were "undesirables" including a prostitute; they were seized from the sheriff by masked men	1, 2
Chinese #5	---	September 21, 1885	Idaho	Shoshone	Pierce City	five Chinese were hanged; two for murder and the other three were "undesirables" including a prostitute; they were seized from the sheriff by masked men	1, 2
Chinese #1	male	October 1885	Washington	King	Seattle	three Chinese men were shot to death by white vigilantes in the weeks leading up to the burning of Seattle's Chinatown	17
Chinese #2	male	October 1885	Washington	King	Seattle	three Chinese men were shot to death by white vigilantes in the weeks leading up to the burning of Seattle's Chinatown	17
Chinese #2	male	October 1885	Washington	King	Seattle	three Chinese men were shot to death by white vigilantes in the weeks leading up to the burning of Seattle's Chinatown	17
---	male	1885 or 1886	Mississippi	---	---	a 14-year-old boy had his hands cuffed and placed in a red hot stove until the flesh fell from his hands in order to get him to testify against his father; when the boy finally broke, they riddled his father full of bullets	10
Epps, Holly	---	January 18, 1886	Indiana	Knox	Vincennes	the African-American was hanged for murder	1
Johnson, Samuel	male	March 5, 1886	New Jersey	Monmouth	Eatontown	the African-American man was hanged for assault and rape	1
a Chinese man	male	June 1886	California	Solano	Dixon	the Chinese man is murdered for opening a laundry in town	17
Kernwood, Gus	male	December 1886	Wyoming	---	Stinking Water Creek	the Hispanic man was hanged in a lynching for horse theft and murder	1
Betters, Peter1	male	June 13, 1887	Ohio	Green	Jamestown	This is a very interesting case; while whites often lynched other whites, especially before 1900, this was the rare case of a black mob lynching a black man; he was hanged for assault of a black woman.	1
Hueng, Ho Ah(Hong Di)	male	July 11, 1887	California	Colusa	Colusa	Ho was hanged and shot after not being given the death penalty by a jury; Ho had killed a woman accidentally whilst attempting to kill a man who had already threatened to kill him; none of the vigilantes were arrested	10, 17
Meija, Manuel	male	1887	Arizona	---	---	the mob placed a rope around Meija's neck, dragged him a half mile and hung him from a tree; he managed to cut himself down after they left but permanently lost the use of his right eye and left arm	4
Holly, Alonzo	male	February 14, 1888	Illinois	Perry	Pinckneyville	the African-American was hanged and shot for an assault on a white woman	1
Indigenous #1	---	March 1888	Montana	---	---	the Indigenous person was lynched in an unknown manner for the murder of white men	1
Indigenous #2	---	March 1888	Montana	---	---	the Indigenous person was lynched in an unknown manner for the murder of white men	1
Martin, Albert	male	May 27, 1889	Michigan	Clair	Port Huron	the "mulatto" reportedly from Canada was hanged for rape by a mob of about 75 to 100 men	1, 7
____, Olaf	male	June 29, 1889	Iowa	Taylor	---	the Italian man was hanged for rape	1
Goto, Katsu	---	October 1889	Hawaii	Hamakua	Honokaa	the Japanese person was hanged due to economic competition with whites	1
8 black victims	male	December 12, 1889	South Carolina	Barnwell	---	eight African-American males were lynched in one incident for murder	8
Ladd, Eli	male	February 1890	Indiana	Henry	Blountsville	the African-American was shot for a "confrontation with whites"	1
Jones, Nelson	male	1890	Georgia	---	near Valdosta	Jones house was attacked by a group of men who left him with 29 bullet holes though he survived by fighting off his attackers with gunfire of his own	10
Stephen ("Indian Steve")	male	January 6, 1891	Washington	Okanagan	Conconully	the Indigenous man was hanged for murder	1
Ortiz, Louis	male	September 17, 1891	Nevada	Washoe	Reno	the Hispanic man was hanged for shooting a police officer	1
Coe, Joe	male	October 9, 1891	Nebraska	Douglas	Omaha	the African-American man was hanged for the assault of a white girl	1
Corbin, Henry	male	January 14, 1892	Ohio	Butler	Oxford	the African-American was hanged and shot for murder	1
Lewis, Robert (aka Jackson)	male	June 2, 1892	New York	Orange	Port Jervis	the African-American was hanged for assault	1
---	---	October 1892	Arizona	Yavapai	Ash Fork	the Indigenous person was hanged and shot for attempted criminal assault	1
3 black businessmen	---	1892	Tennessee	Shelby	Memphis	the three businessmen were lynched because their People's Grocery Store successfully competed with the local white grocery store; they were friends of Ida B. Wells-Barnett and the incident led her to question rape as the great motivation for lynching as compared to economic motives	15
Bush, Samuel J.	male	June 3, 1893	Illinois	Macon	Decatur	the African-American man was hanged after being taken from the county jail by a mob of hundreds with little resistance from the police for assaults on white women; Officer Leech was quoted as saying "Do you suppose we would shoot good citizens for a worthless 'nigger'?"	1, 10
Butler, Allen	male	July 13, 1893	Illinois	Lawrence	Lawrenceville	the African-American male was hanged for "producing a criminal abortion"	1
Smith, Henry	male	1893	Texas	Lamar	Paris	Smith, accused of raping and killing a 4-year-old white girl, was seized from custody by a mob which hung him from a gallows built soley for the occasion after toturing him with red-hot irons; a 200 page book was written to justify the lynching while also recounting its horrors in detail	10
Parker, Roscoe	male	January 12, 1894	Ohio	Adams	West Union	the African-American was hanged and shot for robbery and murder	1
Puryear, Richard	male	March 15, 1894	Pennsylvania	Monroe	Stroudsburg	the African-American was hanged for murder	1
Newlin, Seymour	male	April 14, 1894	Ohio	Logan	Bellefontaine	the African-American was hanged for assault on a white woman	1
6 black victims	---	August 31, 1894	Tennessee	Shelby	---	6 African-Americans were lynched in one incident	8
White, ____	female	April 1895	Texas	Limestone	---	the wife of a Mr. White, an African-American, was hanged by three or four white men	2
---	male	June 1895	Indian Territory (Oklahoma)	---	---	a black teenaged boy was called out of his home and shot to death over some type of incident at school	2
Anderson, Noah	male	August 21, 1895	Ohio	Clermont	New Richmond	the African-American was hanged for murder	1
Mason, Jim	male	August 1895	Texas	Morris	near Daingerfield	the black farmer was shot to death by 6 to 8 white men; his wife and young son were also shot though they may have survived	2
Mason, ____	female	August 1895	Texas	Morris	near Daingerfield	the wife of a black farmer who was killed was also shot and wounded along with her son	2
Mason, ____	male	August 1895	Texas	Morris	near Daingerfield	the young son of a black farmer who was killed was also shot and wounded along with his mother	2
Suaste, Florentino	male	October 11, 1895	Texas	LaSalle	Cotulla	Suaste, five days after being jailed for a gunfight with law enforcement, was shot and hanged by a mob after the guard of State Rangers had been removed; accounts vary as to the nature of the gunfight	10
Moreno, Luis	male	1895	California	---	---	the Mexican national was murdered by a mob and became the first such case to ever receive an indemnity from the US government following the precedent of previous payments to Italian and Chinese victims	4
Morris, Patrick	male	January 12, 1896	Louisiana	Jefferson	---	the white male, Patrick, was married to a black woman, Charlotte; a group of about 20 men came to their house and shot them, then hacked their bodies to pieces with axes, and finally burned the house to the ground; their child escaped during the event	8
Morris, Charlotte	female	January 12, 1896	Louisiana	Jefferson	---	the white male, Patrick, was married to a black woman, Charlotte; a group of about 20 men came to their house and shot them, then hacked their bodies to pieces with axes, and finally burned the house to the ground; their child escaped during the event	8
Viles, Frank	male	August 1896	Washington	Asotin	Asotin	the Indigenous man was hanged for rape	1
Calloway, Charley	male	1896	Georgia	Oglethorpe	---	one of Georgia's largest planters, William Eberhart, enslaved Calloway by falsely accusing him of owing the planter a debt; Eberhart assaulted him while enslaved chaining him naked into a bed with another sick laborer; Eberhart raped and beat his wife; he forced Calloway to pinion his own son and Eberhart beat the boy until he was crippled; he then forced him to apprentice his remaining children to Eberhart until they were 21	12
Calloway, Mary	female	1896	Georgia	Oglethorpe	---	one of Georgia's largest planters, William Eberhart, Mary's husband by falsely accusing him of owing the planter a debt; Eberhart assaulted him while enslaved chaining him naked into a bed with another sick laborer; Eberhart raped Mary at gunpoint and beat her savagely; he forced Calloway to pinion Mary's son and Eberhart beat the boy until he was crippled; he then forced him to apprentice their remaining children to Eberhart until they were 21	12
Mitchell, Charles "Click"	male	June 4, 1897	Ohio	Champaign	Urbana	the African-American was hanged for robbery and assault of a white woman	1
Tijares, Marcelo	male	October 24, 1897	Arizona	Greenlee	Clifton	the Hispanic man was shot for murder by a Mexican mob; the lynching went uninvestigated by Anglo authorities	1, 4
Holy Track, Paul	male	November 14, 1897	North Dakota	Emmons	Williamsport	the Indigenous man and two others were hanged for murder	1
Ireland, Phillip	male	November 14, 1897	North Dakota	Emmons	Williamsport	the Indigenous man and two others were hanged for murder	1
Coudot, Alex	male	November 14, 1897	North Dakota	Emmons	Williamsport	the Indigenous man and two others were hanged for murder	1
Baker, Frazier	male	February 24, 1898	South Carolina	Florence	Lake City	Baker was appointed as Postmaster for Lake City by President William McKinley; his home was attacked and set on fire by a large mob; when Baker ran out the door he was fired upon immediately and killed; his infant son was also shot dead out of the arms of his wife, Lavinia; the federal government attempted to try the killers but could not gain a conviction	10
Stewart, S.W.	male	November 7, 1898	Illinois	Marshall	Lacon	the African-American was hanged for an assault on a white woman	1
Hose (Holt), Sam	male	April 23, 1899	Georgia	Coweta	Newnan	the African-American was lynched for the alleged murder of his white employer and the rape of his wife; the wife made known her wish for a slow burning; Hose was castrated and his ears were cut off, then slowly burned to death; afterward he was dismembered for souvenirs; the news of the display of his knuckles in a store in Georgia was enough for W.E.B. DuBois to proclaim that the cruelty of this lynching had changed his life; this lynching is considered the blueprint for future spectacle lynchings; the railroad claimed to have sold over 1,000 tickets to the spectacle as newspapers announced the horrific event ten days in advance;the former governor of Georgia was nearly killed when he attempted to dissuade the crowd of about 1,500 to 2,000 from the lynching	8, 9, 10, 14
Pierce, David	male	December 19, 1899	Pennsylvania	Fayette	Dunbar	the African-American was shot for murder	1
Bowman, Nathaniel	male	September 21, 1900	Louisiana	Tangipahoa	Ponchatoula	four African-Americans were hanged in a park that had recently been given to blacks so that they could have picnics and parties there; the four had been in jail accused for robbery when the mob broke in and took them; the stated purpose of the lynching was to "teach the worthless blacks in town a lesson"	8
Beckham, George	male	September 21, 1900	Louisiana	Tangipahoa	Ponchatoula	four African-Americans were hanged in a park that had recently been given to blacks so that they could have picnics and parties there; the four had been in jail accused for robbery when the mob broke in and took them; the stated purpose of the lynching was to "teach the worthless blacks in town a lesson"	8
Rollins, Iziah	male	September 21, 1900	Louisiana	Tangipahoa	Ponchatoula	four African-Americans were hanged in a park that had recently been given to blacks so that they could have picnics and parties there; the four had been in jail accused for robbery when the mob broke in and took them; the stated purpose of the lynching was to "teach the worthless blacks in town a lesson"	8
Elliot, Charles	male	September 21, 1900	Louisiana	Tangipahoa	Ponchatoula	four African-Americans were hanged in a park that had recently been given to blacks so that they could have picnics and parties there; the four had been in jail accused for robbery when the mob broke in and took them; the stated purpose of the lynching was to "teach the worthless blacks in town a lesson"	8
Rowland, Bud	male	December 16, 1900	Indiana	Spencer	Rockport	the African-American was hanged for murder	1
Henderson, Jim	male	December 16, 1900	Indiana	Spencer	Rockport	the African-American was hanged and shot for murder	1
Rolla, John	male	December 17, 1900	Indiana	Warrick	Boonville	the African-American was hanged for murder	1
Ward, George	male	February 26, 1901	Indiana	Vigo	Terre Haute	the African-American was hanged and burned for murder	1
Fitzgerald, Ike	male	March 17, 1901	Tennessee	Lake	Tiptonville	when the jury in the African-American's rape case came in and announced that they were deadlocked on a decision the spectators took matters into their own hands and lynched the man hanging him from a tree outside	8
Rivera, Ignacio	male	July 1901	Arizona	---	near Hart's Ranch	the Hispanic man was hanged for horse theft	1
Yellow Wolf, John	male	January 1902	South Dakota	Pennignton	---	the Indigenous man was hanged for horse theft	1
Hammock, Cornelia	female	May 22, 1902	Alabama	Tallapoosa	Dadeville	Hammock was charged with larceny and sold as a convict to the Fletch Turner farm here two days later she died with no cause of death ever recorded	12
Tucker, Alonzo	male	September 1902	Oregon	Coos	Marshfield (Coos Bay)	the African-American was shot and hanged for rape	1
Dillard, James	male	November 20, 1902	Indiana	Sullivan	Sullivan	the African-American was hanged for rape	1
---	male	early April 1903	North Carolina	Vance	Henderson	the black man refused to give up his reserved seat at a local theater to a white customer; when he resisted being removed, he was shot dead by a police officer	12
---	male	April 26, 1903	Illinois	Alexander	near Thebes	the African-American man was hanged for an assault on a white girl	1
Stephens, Rebecca and Ida	female	April 26, 1903	Indiana	Monroe	Bloomington	the 13 and 16-year-old girls were whipped by a group of 38 men merely because their family had a black boarder; the older girl was whipped with barbed wire, and the younger girl with apple switches	14
Shively, Joe	male	April 26, 1903	Indiana	Monroe	Bloomington	the fifty-year-old African-American was whipped with barbed wire and hit with brass knuckles merely for beibg a boarder with a white family	14
Freeman, Dillard	male	ca. June 1903	Alabama	Lowndes	---	Sheriff Dixon paid the fine of laborer Freeman and had him sign a work contract; Freeman left to visit his sick brother; Dixon and another man pistol whipped him at his family's house, then took him back to the farm where they had him severely flogged, chained him toa bed, and then put him back to work in the fields two days later	13
Wyatt, David	male	June 6, 1903	Illinois	St. Clair	Belleville	the African-American man's body was hanged, sliced and burned for the shooting, but not killing, of the county superintendent of education; 200 men had broken Wyatt out of jail to bring him to his fate, immediately smashing his head and killing him	1, 12, 14
White, George	male	June 22, 1903	Delaware	New Castle	Wilmington	the African-American was mutilated, shot, and burned at the stake for the assault of a white girl	1, 12
Williams, Reverend W.W.	male	June/July 1903	Georgia	Lee	Leesburg	the Reverend began preaching against the common practice of white farmers taking "conjugal rights" with the black women on their farms saying that they should resist their advances; a mob stripped him naked and whipped his backside raw saying to him that he was "controlling colored women"	12
Mayfield, J.D.	male	July 25, 1903	Illinois	Vermilion	Danville	the African-American man was hanged and burned for shooting a white man who was part of a mob	1
"Chinaman"	male	September 16, 1903	Nevada	Nye	Tonopah	the Chinese-American was beaten and mutilated for an unknown offense	1
Black Kettle	male	October 31, 1903	Wyoming	Weston	---	the Indigenous man was shot for stock theft and murder	1
Eagle Feather	male	October 31, 1903	Wyoming	Weston	---	the Indigenous man was shot for stock theft and murder	1
Unidentified Lakota Sioux	male	October 31, 1903	Wyoming	Weston	---	the Indigenous man was shot for stock theft and murder	1
Unidentified Lakota Sioux	male	October 31, 1903	Wyoming	Weston	---	the Indigenous man was shot for stock theft and murder	1
Stuart, Arthur	male	December 25, 1903	Alabama	Wilcox	Pine Apple	after getting angry at black dice gamblers he had joined, the teenaged Evander "Pig" Melton, was shot by an unknown assailant; Stuart took the blame though the shooter was not clearly known;a small mob broke into jail and beat him senseless; they then doused him with kerosene and lit him on fire; this was rather typical of lynchings, except that the fire burned out of control and ended up destroying the entire commercial center of Pine Apple where the jail was located; about one year later the brothers, Edward and William Plowly, were hanged by a lynch mob in Pine Apple after being accused of murdering a white man	12
Holbert, Luther	male	February 1904	Mississippi	Sunflower	Doddsville	Luther and his wife were burned at the stake for the murder of James Eastland; they were tortured mercilessly beforehand including having a large corkscrew plunged into them numerous times	10
Holbert, ____	female	February 1904	Mississippi	Sunflower	Doddsville	Mrs. Holbert and her husband were burned at the stake for the murder of James Eastland; they were tortured mercilessly beforehand including having a large corkscrew plunged into them numerous times	10
Dixon, Richard	male	March 7, 1904	Ohio	Clark	Springfield	the African-American was hanged and shot for shooting and killing a woman and a police officer; the mob broke into the jail to get Dixon; the next day the mob, still stirred to violence began a race riot	1, 6
Bookard, Kitt	male	July 15, 1904	South Carolina	Berkeley	Eutawville	after threatening to paddle a young white man whom he had gotten into an argument with, Bookard was taken to jail; a mob subsequently broke in and kidnapped him; his body was found broken and mutilated in the Santee River with an iron weight tied to it	8
Cato, Will	male	August 16, 1904	Georgia	Bulloch	Statesboro	whites busted through the National Guard unit who had only unloaded rifles guarding the two black prisoners charged with murdering the Hodges, a family of five; the two men were burned alive by a crowd of about 500; mobs with whips roamed around looking for other blacks to attack	10
Reed, Paul	male	August 16, 1904	Georgia	Bulloch	Statesboro	whites busted through the National Guard unit who had only unloaded rifles guarding the two black prisoners charged with murdering the Hodges, a family of five; the two men were burned alive by a crowd of about 500; mobs with whips roamed around looking for other blacks to attack	10
Martin, Joseph	male	August 30, 1904	Wyoming	Albany	---	the African-American was hanged for attempted sexual assault	1
7 blacks and 1 white victim	---	June 29, 1905	Georgia	Oconee	---	7 African-Americans and one white were lynched in one incident	8
Johnson, Ed	male	March 19, 1906	Tennessee	Hamilton	Chattanooga	Johnson was convicted of raping a white woman and sentenced to death by the judge as mobs roamed the streets wanting to lynch him; a US Supreme Court judge stayed the execution as the trial had been unfair; a mob broke into the jail and hanged Johnson from the Tennessee River bridge	10
two Italians	male	May 1906	North Carolina	McDowell	Marion	a language barrier caused the superintendent of a railroad company to believe he was threatened by the Italian workers there; he led a posse with a deputy sheriff to their tent camp and two workers were killed in the ensuing melee; nine others were taken and held in jail with at least one of these being flogged	13
Burton, Scott	male	mid-August 1908	Illinois	Sangamon	Springfield	the African-American man was shot and hanged for shooting into a white mob	1
Donegan, William	male	mid-August 1908	Illinois	Sangamon	Springfield	the African-American man was hanged and mutilated for being married to a white woman	1
8 black victims	---	October 3, 1908	Kentucky	Fulton	---	8 African-Americans, all members of the David Walker family, were lynched in one incident; Walker allegedly cursed at a white woman; later that evening a mobset fire to his home and shot the family members as they fled	8
James, William "Froggy"	male	November 9, 1909	Illinois	Alexander	Cairo	the African-American man was hanged, shot, and burned for rape and murder	1
Rodriguez, Antonio	male	November 3, 1910	Texas	Edwards	Rocksprings	the 20-year-old was burned at the stake after being removed from a jail; he had been accused of killing a white woman	11
Horne, Lath	male	ca. June 1910	Georgia	Houston	---	Horne, having tried to free his sister from peonage, was assailed by two white men, taken to a cemetery, and beaten to death with their pistols and a buggy line	13
6 black victims	---	May 21, 1911	Florida	Columbia	---	6 African-Americans were lynched in one incident	8
Nelson, Laura	female	May 25, 1911	Oklahoma	Okfuskee	Okemah	the African-American woman was lynched along with her teenaged son	11
Walker, Zachariah	male	1911	Pennsylvania	Chester	Coatesville	after shooting and killing a white security guard during a robbery, Walker attempted suicide; he was taken from his hospital room by a white mob, while still strapped to his bed, and burned alive	15
Wigfall, Frank	male	October 2, 1912	Wyoming	Carbon	Rawlins	the African-American was hanged for rape	1
Collins, J.C.	male	April 5, 1913	Montana	Sheridan	Mondak	the African-American was hanged for murder	1
Walker, Zachariah	male	August 13, 1913	Pennsylvania	Chester	Coatesville	the African-American was hanged for murder	1
---	male	September 12, 1913	Illinois	Alexander	Tamms	the Africa-American man was shot in a "confrontation over use of counterfeit dollar at store"	1
Leon, Hilario	male	April 19, 1915	Arizona	Pima	Greaterville	the two Leon brothers were hanged and killed by two law enforcement deputies Robert Fenter and Frank Moore; Fenter had previously been convicted of shooting a Mexican in the back in 1913 but was only fined; it was unclear whether that victim had died or not	4
Leon, Jose	male	April 19, 1915	Arizona	Pima	Greaterville	the two Leon brothers were hanged and killed by two law enforcement deputies Robert Fenter and Frank Moore; Fenter had previously been convicted of shooting a Mexican in the back in 1913 but was only fined; it was unclear whether that victim had died or not	4
Sparanzo, Joseph	male	June 10, 1915	Illinois	Williamson	Johnson City	the Italian man was hanged for murder	1
Frank, Leo	male	August 16, 1915	Georgia	Cobb	Marietta	Frank, the Jewish manager of the factory where Mary Phagan worked, was wrongly blamed for her death; his sentence was commuted by the governor, but two months later a mob broke into the Georgia prison where he was held and hanged him from a tree	10
Barber, Daniel	male	1915	Georgia	Jasper	Monticello	hanged for resisting arrest for bootlegging; his two daughters and son were hanged in front of him first as he was forced to watch before beinghanged himself	16
daughter of Daniel Barber	female	1915	Georgia	Jasper	Monticello	hanged for no reason along with her two siblings, and her father who resisted arrest for bootlegging	16
daughter #2 of Daniel Barber	female	1915	Georgia	Jasper	Monticello	hanged for no reason along with her two siblings, and her father who resisted arrest for bootlegging	16
son of Daniel Barber	male	1915	Georgia	Jasper	Monticello	hanged for no reason along with his two sisters, and his father who had resisted arrest for bootlegging	16
Washington, Jesse	male	1916	Texas	McLennan	Waco	approximately 15,000 people attended this lynching though newspapers reported that many looked away as the 18-year-old African-American was burned to death in the City Hall square of Waco; photographs were sold as souvenirs and the body was scavenged for that purpose as well; ostensibly Washington had raped and murdered Mrs. Lucy Fryar; Washigton was castrated prior to being burned	9
Boleta, Paulo	male	December 14, 1916	New York	New York	New York City (Greenwich Village)	the Italian man was beaten to death for shooting and injuring innocent bystanders	1
Hamilton, Wade	male	December 14, 1917	Wyoming	Sweetwater	---	the African-American was hanged and shot for attempted rape	1
Singleton, Claud	male	April 18, 1918	Mississippi	Pearl River	Poplarville	an all-whie jury found the African-American guilty of murder, but they sentenced him to life imprisonment rather than sentencing him to death; a mob of about 100 white men broke into the jail and hanged him from a tree	8
Woodson, Joel	male	December 9, 1918	Wyoming	Sweetwater	---	the African-American was beaten and hanged for murder	1
---	male	July 1919	Georgia	---	---	the African-American from Chicago travelling through Georgia on a train suggested that blacks should defend themselves as had blacks in Chicago during the recent riot; white passengers took him from the train and hanged him from a tree	8
Cooper, Eli	male	August 27, 1919	Georgia	Laurens/Dodge	---	15 to 20 white men took Cooper to a black church, shot him, torched the church, and threw his body inside; his crime was encouraging blacks to rebel against white supremacy	8
Brown, Will	male	September 28, 1919	Alabama	Randolph	Omaha	the African-American was beaten, hanged, shot and burned for the assault of a white woman	1, 16
---	male	September 28, 1919	Alabama	Randolph	Omaha	the mayor of Omaha, Alabama was lynched for trying to prevent the lynching of a black prisoner	16
Clayton, Elias	male	June 15, 1920	Minnesota	Saint Louis	Duluth	the African-American was hanged for rape	1
McGhie, Isaac	male	June 15, 1920	Minnesota	Saint Louis	Duluth	the African-American was hanged for rape	1
Jackson, Elmer	male	June 15, 1920	Minnesota	Saint Louis	Duluth	the African-American was hanged for rape	1
---	male	January 1921	Georgia	Meriwether	---	a black laborer was tied to a tree and shot to death by his former employer	13
Stenson, Jim	male	March 1921	Alabama	---	---	Stenson was the primary witness in a case against three men who held slaves in central Alabama; he was kidnapped twice and taken out of state to prevent his testimony; the men were never charged with this crime but they were given a nominal penalty for the original peonage charges	12
young black girl	female	ca. August 1921	Georgia	Oglethorpe	Crawford	a young black girl was beaten to death by her employer, All Brightwell, for not working; the previous day he had poured hot coals down her neck and made her sit on hot coals	13
two black women	female	September 1923	Mississippi	Holmes	Pickens	a black youth borrowed 50 cents from a white man but when he attempted to repay the man he demanded an extra ten cents; the youth and his father fled town not having the extra money; a group of nine white men went to their home and shot the boy's sister multiple times as she tried to flee	8
Hardeman, William	male	December 26, 1923	Mississippi		Elliott Station	the preacher was killed by a shotgun blast from a group of men late rin the evening after he had made sarcastic remarks to a white woman earlier in the day	8
Bell, William	male	October 8, 1924	Illinois	Cook	Chicago	the African-American man was beaten to death for assault of a white girl	1
two African-Americans	male	1924	Alabama	---	near the Tombigbee River	a 21-year-old and his fifteen-year-old brother were held for over nine months at a logging camp/sawmill of S.J. Wilkins; nothing ever came of the charges	12
Williams, Mr and Mrs. Emmanuel	male/female	ca. 1923-1925	Louisiana	---	---	the tenant farmer and his wife were shot by farmer Tobe Gill because Williams calculated that his crop managed to get him out of debt; Gill claimed self-defense and was let off despite testimony from a 16-year-old witness	13
Marshall, Robert	male	June 18, 1925	Utah	Carbon	Price	the African-American was hanged twice for murder; the first time law enforcement officials rescued him but they were later overpowered by the mob	1, 5
---	male	April 1926	Alabama	Jefferson	Birmingham	the textile mill worker was brutally whipped as a sign to other workers that they would not be given jobs above the level of floor sweepers or janitors	12
Dixon, Carolina	female	July 1926	Alabama	Choctaw	Robjohn	the thirteen-year-old girl was held in peonage for five years against her mother's will, and raped and beaten repeatedly over that time period	13
Mobley, Jim	male	May 1929	Florida	Hamilton	---	the 72-year-old African-American was found in the company of a white woman; a group of white men cut his hands off and threw him into the Suwanee River to drown	8
Smith, Abe	male	August 7, 1930	Indiana	Grant	Marion	the African-American was hanged for rape and murder	1
Shipp, Tom	male	August 7, 1930	Indiana	Grant	Marion	the African-American was hanged for rape and murder	1
an unnamed black man	male	January 1931	Missouri	Nodaway	Maryville	a crowd of 3,000 people watched the man die as he was incinerated in a church	16
Williams, Matthew	male	1931	Maryland	Wicomico	Salisbury	a group of about 200 white men took the African-American from a hospital and hanged him from a tree near the town's courthouse; there were estimated to be 1,000 spectators	9
Murray, Luke	male	June 7, 1932	Ohio	Lawrence	Ironton	the African-American was lynched by unknown means for threatening a white man with a knife	1
an unnamed black man	male	October 1933	Maryland	Somerset	Princess Anne	a crowd of about 3,000 people overpowered 50 state troopers to lynch the man and then dragged his corpse through the streets	16
Neal, Claude	male	October 26, 1934	Florida	Jackson	Marianna	the newspaper reported the lynching was to occur about 12 hours before it did; approximately 100 white men tortured the African- American for about ten hours before his death; Neal had been arrested for the murder of Lola Cannidy; the crowd at the lynching was estimated between three and seven thousand; he was castrated and forced to eat it according to accounts published by the NAACP; a riot broke out as whites who went to the wrong location and could not see the lynching looked for potential other victims; Neal's body was dragged for miles by automobile to another spot where it was displayed for photos; his fingers and toes were sut off for souvenirs	9, 10
Stacy, Rubin	male	1935	Florida	Dade	---	Stacy was a homeless tenant farmer who was lynched by a mob who snatched him while he was being escorted by law enforcement to a Dade County jail; it was later revealed that Stacy had merely asked a white woman for food when she had filed a legal complaint against him	15
Townes, Roosevelt and McDaniels, "Bootjack"	male	April 13, 1937	Mississippi	Montgomery	Duck Hill	Townes, a "young Negro boy" and McDaniels were lynched after being tortured with gasoline blowtorches in the town square for the murder of a shopkeeper; McDaniels was eventually shot to death and Townes was doused with gasoline and burned; there were about 300-400 spectators	9, 10
Davis, Ethel Lee and Mr.	female/male	July 10, 1937	Mississippi	Tallahatchie	---	the couple were at varying times beaten and chained by their planter employer, who also attempted to sell them to another planter and gave them no earnings from their work for at least a year; the planter received a three-year jail sentence and a $1,000 fine	13