Dec. 27, 1889, Lynching was so common in the Jim Crow South
that it often barely made it into the paper and even then, it was just a few
lines. The story was nearly always the same as well, White Woman Attacked. This
time it was a remote part of Tuscaloosa County in Alabama. The woman was the
wife of a farmer named Fowler and the suspect was one Bud Wilson. Mr. Wilson
was arrested by two deputy sheriffs fifteen miles from Tuscaloosa, and while en
route to the jail the party was overtaken by an armed mob of 50 men and hung
from a tree while they riddled his body with bullets. The newspapers tried to
make the mob into heroes for saving Mrs. Fowler from a black man who was known
to be a “notoriously bad character and was wanted on several charges,” no one was
ever charged in Wilson’s death.
Sources:
https://www.newspapers.com/image/812814585/?terms=%22James%20Fowler%22&match=1
https://tavm.omeka.net/items/show/2317
https://www.newspapers.com/image/272949225/?terms=%22James%20Fowler%22&match=1
https://www.newspapers.com/image/812814585/?terms=%22Bud%20Wilson%22&match=1
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