Lynching of Earnest Williams
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1908 lynching of a Black man in Arkansas
Earnest Williams was an African-American man who was lynched by a mob in Parkdale, Ashley County, Arkansas, in 1908. John R. Steelman, who wrote his PhD dissertation on "mob action in the South", listed Williams as one of the cases, and said "Earnest Williams was thrust into eternity by a band of men who were 'outraged' at him for 'using offensive language'."[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Steelman, John R. (1928). A Study of Mob Action in the South (PhD). University of North Carolina. p. 178.
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- 1908 in Arkansas
- 1908 murders in the United States
- History of Ashley County, Arkansas
- Lynching deaths in Arkansas
- Murdered African-American people
- People murdered in Arkansas
- Race-related controversies in the United States
- Racially motivated violence against African Americans in Arkansas
- African-American lynching victims