Wednesday, December 28, 2022

CRT History Snapshot: Negro's Body Goes Missing and No One Cares

 


Dec. 28, 1905, Athens, Alabama was no stranger to racial trouble, no part of Alabama was. On this day there was another lynching with an unsolved mystery. On this morning a mob of 100 men acted as an extra-judicial posse and began tracking a Black man from Birmingham for the alleged assault on a policeman in the small town of Elkmont. The officer, Henry Nichols, was slightly injured from a gunshot. The posse pursued Alex. McDonald through the night and brought him back to Athens early in the morning with a rope around his neck and reportedly over 100 bullets riddling his corpse. The coroner took possession of the body and promptly lost it with no report of anyone finding it. There was total indifference by local authorities to the lynching and missing body, or at least none reported in any newspaper of the time.


Sources:

https://www.newspapers.com/image/242649729/?terms=%22Alex%20McDonald%22&match=1

https://www.newspapers.com/image/242649729/?terms=%22Alex%20McDonald%22&match=1


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