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Lynching of William Baker

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Lynching of William Baker
Part of Jim Crow Era
News coverage of the Lynching of William Baker
DateMarch 8, 1922
LocationMonroe County, Mississippi
DeathsWilliam Baker

William Baker was an 18-year-old African-American man who was lynched in Monroe County, Mississippi by a white mob on March 8, 1922. According to the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary it was the 14th of 61 lynchings during 1922 in the United States. [1]

Lynching

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Between Okolona and Aberdeen, Mississippi, 18-year-old farmhand William Baker was putting a buggy into its shed when the six-year-old daughter of Constable Sidney Johnson got into it. Baker allegedly then took the girl to a shed where she started screaming. Her mother came running and grabbed hold of him. A white mob quickly gathered and hanged Baker.[2] His body was discovered by Sheriff Lewis hanging from a Chinaberry tree.[3] The Chicago Whip writes the lynching took place 10 miles (16 km) from Aberdeen, Mississippi.[4]

See also

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In 1899, Keith Bowen, an African-American man was lynched by a mob after an alleged assault.[5] In 1914, Mayho Miller, an 18-year-old Negro boy, was lynched by a mob after an alleged assault.[6]

Bibliography

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Notes

  1. ^ United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary 1926, p. 17.
  2. ^ Okolona Messenger, March 9, 1922, p. 8.
  3. ^ The Washington Times, March 8, 1922, p. 2.
  4. ^ The Chicago Whip, March 18, 1922, p. 1.
  5. ^ "Negro Item". Kansas City Gazette. August 15, 1889. p. 1.
  6. ^ East Mississippi Times, January 15, 1915.

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