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Box L.27

 Container

Contains 116 Results:

Lynching Cases - Tennessee, 1927-1948, 1960

 File — Box: L.27
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Named lynching victims are Jerome Boyett and Harvey Winchester (Huntsville, 1933), George Smith (Union City, 1931), Henry Choate (Columbia, 1927), Joseph Boxley (Alamo, 1929), Dick Wilkerson (Manchester, 1934), Elbert Williams (Brownsville, 1940), Baxter Bell (White Bluff, 1935), and George Slim Johnson (Tullahoma, 1943). Victims of attempted lynchings are Henry Mauford (Union City, 1931) and John Fleming (Knoxville, 1947)

Dates: 1927-1948; 1960

Lynching Cases - Tennessee - E.K. Harris (Shelbyville), 1934

 File — Box: L.27
Scope and Contents

Contains a letter to Carl Murphy from eyewitness Mrs. R.L. Suggs.

Dates: 1934

Lynching Cases - Texas, 1926-1946

 File — Box: L.27
Scope and Contents

Named lynching victims are Tom Payne (Willis, 1927), Buddy Evans (Center, 1928), Cleave Williams (Calvert, 1929), Bill Roam (Bryan, 1930), Isaiah Edwards (Conroe, 1931), Lon Griggs (Kirbyville, 1934), Bob White (Conroe, 1941), Mott Flournoy (no place listed, 1941), Howard Wilpitz (Brookshire, 1942), James Rogers (Branham, 1944), Richard F. Gordon and Alonza Brooks (Marshall, 1946). Victims of attempted lynchings are Rainey Williams (Beaumont, 1930), Frank Ellis (Texarkana, 1938).

Dates: 1926-1946