Wednesday, December 21, 2022

Lynching of Negro Barely Makes News




December 21, 1914, White mob violence was so regular in the Jim Crow era that when it happened, and a Black person was lynched it was usually just a few lines. Such is the case with Charles Williams a Black man in Ruleville, Mississippi on this day. A mob took Williams from the local jail and hung him for the reported crimes of assaulting a local plantation manager, Thomas King, and biting off his chin. There are no other facts reported in over 60 newspapers


Sources: 

https://www.newspapers.com/image/194348285/?terms=%22Thomas%20King%22&match=1

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