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USA: Lynching, FL, NC, MD & VA

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  • At this intersection of St Petersburg, Florida's 2nd Ave S and 9th street (Martin Luther King street) John Evans was dragged from the jail on Central Avenue and lynched by a crowd of 1,500 on the 12th November 1914.
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  • At this intersection of St Petersburg, Florida's 2nd Ave S and 9th street (Martin Luther King street) John Evans was dragged from the jail on Central Avenue and lynched by a crowd of 1,500 on the 12th November 1914.
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  • Tampa, at the corner of Howard Avenue and present day Kennedy Boulevard, two Italian cigar workers were lynched during the cigar workers strike of 1910. <br />
Angelano Albano, 25, and Castrone Figarretta, 45, were arrested for the shooting a week earlier of a cigar factory's bookkeeper and were being transported to the jail when three car loads of men seized the prisoners. They were hung and shot. The authorities left the bodies there until the next morning. The lynch mob left a note pinned to the trousers of one victim saying "take note or go the same way".
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  • Tampa, at the corner of Howard Avenue and present day Kennedy Boulevard, two Italian cigar workers were lynched during the cigar workers strike of 1910. <br />
Angelano Albano, 25, and Castrone Figarretta, 45, were arrested for the shooting a week earlier of a cigar factory's bookkeeper and were being transported to the jail when three car loads of men seized the prisoners. They were hung and shot. The authorities left the bodies there until the next morning. The lynch mob left a note pinned to the trousers of one victim saying "take note or go the same way".
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  • On January 28th 1934 Robert Johnson was accused but later exonerated by the police of robbing and raping a white woman. He was kidnapped while being transferred from the city to the county jail at 2:30 am by a crowd of 30. He was gunned down and his body was left on along the Hillsborough River near Sligh Avenue.
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  • On January 28th 1934 Robert Johnson was accused but later exonerated by the police of robbing and raping a white woman. He was kidnapped while being transferred from the city to the county jail at 2:30 am by a crowd of 30. He was gunned down and his body was left on along the Hillsborough River near Sligh Avenue.
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  • On July 19th 1935, Ruben Stacey, a 37 year old tenant farmer was lynched after being accused of of pulling a knife on a white woman who he asked for a drink of water. A mob of approximately 20 people kidnapped Stacey from the sheriffs  and led him down the Old Davie road where he was lynched at 4:30pm.<br />
He was shot 17 times by members of the crowd who gathered to watch the spectacle.
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  • On July 19th 1935, Rubin Stacey, a 37 year old tenant farmer was lynched after being accused of of pulling a knife on a white woman who he asked for a drink of water. A mob of approximately 20 people kidnapped Stacey from the sheriffs  and led him down the Old Davie road where he was lynched at 4:30pm.<br />
He was shot 17 times by members of the crowd who gathered to watch the spectacle.
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  • On July 19th 1935, Ruben Stacey, a 37 year old tenant farmer was lynched after being accused of of pulling a knife on a white woman who he asked for a drink of water. A mob of approximately 20 people kidnapped Stacey from the sheriffs  and led him down the Old Davie road where he was lynched at 4:30pm.<br />
He was shot 17 times by members of the crowd who gathered to watch the spectacle.
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  • Source:<br />
http://lynching.web.unc.edu/the-people/daniel-and-jefferson-morrow/<br />
<br />
"Daniel and Jefferson Morrow<br />
1869-08-07<br />
Orange County, NC<br />
<br />
Alleged offense: Arson<br />
Race: Black<br />
Gender: Male<br />
Age: Unrecorded<br />
Legal intervention (in alleged offense): Yes<br />
Legal intervention (following lynching): Yes<br />
Mob size: 75<br />
Mob members: Unrecorded<br />
Alleged victim: N/A<br />
Household Status: Married<br />
Occupation: Farmer<br />
<br />
Jefferson Morrow and Daniel Morrow, two African American farm workers from Orange County, died for the alleged crimes of barn burning and threats of rape toward a white woman. In July, 1869, three barns in Orange County burned to the ground in a single evening. The Morrow brothers quickly fell under the suspicion of the community and law enforcement arrested and confined them to the Hillsborough jail. On July 8th, a mob of Ku Klux Klan members abducted the two men from the prison and removed them to the “top of a hill outside of town.” There they threatened the men at gunpoint, before finally deciding on their innocence and letting them go free. At some point in the encounter, a Klan member wounded one of the brothers with a gunshot to his thigh. Newspapers widely circulated reports of the attempted lynching and discussed it extensively, with writers describing in minute detail the dress and conduct of the KKK members. Nearly a month later, on August 7, 1869, a mob lynched the Morrow brothers following an accusation of barn burning and the vague charge of insulting women. Reports at the time indicated that the lynch mob left a note identifying themselves as the KKK. In the wake of the Morrow brothers’ lynching and other Klan activity, Governor William Woods Holden threatened to declare Orange county and other nearby counties as being in a state of insurrection.<br />
<br />
Documentation<br />
<br />
Death certificate: Persons who Died during the Year ending 1st June, 1870<br />
Census: None found<br />
<br />
News coverage:<br />
<br />
Morrow Brothers Abducted<br />
<br />
State News<br />
<br />
Proclamation <br />
<br />
Location<br />
<br />
Town: Hillsborough, North Ca
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  • Source:<br />
http://lynching.web.unc.edu/the-people/daniel-and-jefferson-morrow/<br />
<br />
"Daniel and Jefferson Morrow<br />
1869-08-07<br />
Orange County, NC<br />
<br />
Alleged offense: Arson<br />
Race: Black<br />
Gender: Male<br />
Age: Unrecorded<br />
Legal intervention (in alleged offense): Yes<br />
Legal intervention (following lynching): Yes<br />
Mob size: 75<br />
Mob members: Unrecorded<br />
Alleged victim: N/A<br />
Household Status: Married<br />
Occupation: Farmer<br />
<br />
Jefferson Morrow and Daniel Morrow, two African American farm workers from Orange County, died for the alleged crimes of barn burning and threats of rape toward a white woman. In July, 1869, three barns in Orange County burned to the ground in a single evening. The Morrow brothers quickly fell under the suspicion of the community and law enforcement arrested and confined them to the Hillsborough jail. On July 8th, a mob of Ku Klux Klan members abducted the two men from the prison and removed them to the “top of a hill outside of town.” There they threatened the men at gunpoint, before finally deciding on their innocence and letting them go free. At some point in the encounter, a Klan member wounded one of the brothers with a gunshot to his thigh. Newspapers widely circulated reports of the attempted lynching and discussed it extensively, with writers describing in minute detail the dress and conduct of the KKK members. Nearly a month later, on August 7, 1869, a mob lynched the Morrow brothers following an accusation of barn burning and the vague charge of insulting women. Reports at the time indicated that the lynch mob left a note identifying themselves as the KKK. In the wake of the Morrow brothers’ lynching and other Klan activity, Governor William Woods Holden threatened to declare Orange county and other nearby counties as being in a state of insurrection.<br />
<br />
Documentation<br />
<br />
Death certificate: Persons who Died during the Year ending 1st June, 1870<br />
Census: None found<br />
<br />
News coverage:<br />
<br />
Morrow Brothers Abducted<br />
<br />
State News<br />
<br />
Proclamation <br />
<br />
Location<br />
<br />
Town: Hillsborough, North Ca
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  • Moore's Bridge area of Jordan Lake east of Pittsboro NC.<br />
<br />
1921-09-18, Eugene Daniel was hung from the limb of a tree near site of the old Moore's Bridge. Chatham County NC.<br />
The road and bridge were flooded when a dam was built across the river in 1981, forming Jordan Lake.<br />
<br />
1921-09-18<br />
Chatham County, NC<br />
<br />
Source:<br />
http://lynching.web.unc.edu/the-people/eugene-daniel/<br />
<br />
"Alleged offense: Trespassing; Attempted Rape (unlikely)<br />
Race: Black<br />
Gender: Male<br />
Age: 16<br />
Legal intervention (in alleged offense): No<br />
Legal intervention (following lynching): Unrecorded<br />
Mob size:50<br />
Mob members: None named, presumably included Gertrude Stone’s father<br />
Alleged victim: Gertrude Stone<br />
Household Status: Unmarried (lived with parents and siblings)<br />
Occupation: None<br />
<br />
Newspapers report that on Friday September 16, 1921, Gertrude Stone awoke to a man standing in the corner of her bedroom. Sixteen-year-old Eugene Daniel, sometimes called Ernest Daniels in newspaper accounts, was suspected of the crime. Early Saturday morning, police gathered bloodhounds from Raeford (60 miles away from Pittsboro), which tracked down Eugene Daniel’s scent that afternoon. Upon locating Daniel, the police extracted a confession and took him to the Pittsboro Jail. A mob of around 50 men from New Hope Township formed around the jail Saturday night and took the keys from jailer H.W. Taylor. Daniel was taken five miles east onto an area near Moore’s bridge, where he was hanged with a chain and shot to death. At least 1,000 people visited the scene the next day to view Eugene Daniel’s body, until noon, when the coroner took Daniel’s body down from the tree. Daniel had just turned 16 and was part of a large black family. In the 1970s, the area was submerged with water from the creation of Jordan Lake. However, using a kayak or wading through water, it is still possible to reach the location of the lynching. A geocache has been created to give directions on how to reach the area".
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  • Moore's Bridge area of Jordan Lake east of Pittsboro NC.<br />
<br />
1921-09-18, Eugene Daniel was hung from the limb of a tree near site of the old Moore's Bridge. Chatham County NC.<br />
The road and bridge were flooded when a dam was built across the river in 1981, forming Jordan Lake.<br />
<br />
1921-09-18<br />
Chatham County, NC<br />
<br />
Source:<br />
http://lynching.web.unc.edu/the-people/eugene-daniel/<br />
<br />
"Alleged offense: Trespassing; Attempted Rape (unlikely)<br />
Race: Black<br />
Gender: Male<br />
Age: 16<br />
Legal intervention (in alleged offense): No<br />
Legal intervention (following lynching): Unrecorded<br />
Mob size:50<br />
Mob members: None named, presumably included Gertrude Stone’s father<br />
Alleged victim: Gertrude Stone<br />
Household Status: Unmarried (lived with parents and siblings)<br />
Occupation: None<br />
<br />
Newspapers report that on Friday September 16, 1921, Gertrude Stone awoke to a man standing in the corner of her bedroom. Sixteen-year-old Eugene Daniel, sometimes called Ernest Daniels in newspaper accounts, was suspected of the crime. Early Saturday morning, police gathered bloodhounds from Raeford (60 miles away from Pittsboro), which tracked down Eugene Daniel’s scent that afternoon. Upon locating Daniel, the police extracted a confession and took him to the Pittsboro Jail. A mob of around 50 men from New Hope Township formed around the jail Saturday night and took the keys from jailer H.W. Taylor. Daniel was taken five miles east onto an area near Moore’s bridge, where he was hanged with a chain and shot to death. At least 1,000 people visited the scene the next day to view Eugene Daniel’s body, until noon, when the coroner took Daniel’s body down from the tree. Daniel had just turned 16 and was part of a large black family. In the 1970s, the area was submerged with water from the creation of Jordan Lake. However, using a kayak or wading through water, it is still possible to reach the location of the lynching. A geocache has been created to give directions on how to reach the area".
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  • Source: http://lynching.web.unc.edu/the-people/cyrus-guy/<br />
<br />
"Cyrus Guy<br />
1869-12-02<br />
Orange County, NC<br />
<br />
Alleged offense: Racially motivated (no alleged crime)<br />
Race: Black<br />
Gender: Male<br />
Age: Unknown<br />
Legal intervention (in alleged offense): No<br />
Legal intervention (following lynching): Yes<br />
Mob size: 100 (“a hundert”)<br />
Mob members: None named<br />
Alleged victim: N/A<br />
Household Status: Unknown<br />
Occupation: Unknown<br />
<br />
An mixed-race man named Cyrus Guy allegedly made a snide remark to a white woman, prompting a mob to form and kill him. Members of the mob cut Guy in order to write his sentence in blood above his body before hanging him. After the mob had lynched him, they left his body hanging in the tree on the highly-travelled intersection of Faucette Mill and Lebanon Road as a sign for other “Mulattos” in the area to know their place. Once the Sheriff took Guy’s body down from the tree, no one claimed it, and he was buried in the Orange County Poorhouse Cemetery. It is believed that the Klan was responsible.<br />
<br />
Documentation<br />
<br />
Death certificate:<br />
Cyrus Guy Death Inquisition<br />
Census: None found<br />
<br />
News coverage:<br />
Cyrus Guy Lynching<br />
<br />
Location <br />
<br />
Town: Efland, North Carolina<br />
Latitude/Longitude: 36.101940, -79.177843<br />
<br />
Rationale: Site was named as the “Old Orange County Poorhouse.”<br />
<br />
Additional Resources:<br />
<br />
Cyrus Guy Death; Orange County Lynching"
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  • In 1898, Manley McCauley was accused of eloping with the wife of a prosperous white Orange County farmer and lynched from a tree on this road 3 miles north West of Chapel Hill NC.<br />
<br />
Source:<br />
http://lynching.web.unc.edu/the-people/manley-mccauley/<br />
1898-11-07<br />
Orange County, NC<br />
<br />
Alleged offense: Absconding with a white woman<br />
Race: Black<br />
Gender: Male<br />
Age: Unspecified<br />
Legal intervention (in alleged offense): Yes<br />
Legal intervention (following lynching): No<br />
Mob size: 18<br />
Mob members: Milton Brewer<br />
Alleged victim: N/A<br />
Household Status: Unmarried<br />
Occupation: Farmhand<br />
<br />
Manley McCauley was accused of eloping with the wife of a prosperous white Orange County farmer and Republican Party operative. The two absconded to Jonesboro, or so the story goes, pursued by a posse of 18 men. Local intelligence claims that Milton Brewer, the woman’s husband, was part of the posse though it is not clear whether he was a willing participant. He was scolded (as was his wife) for his belief in racial equality and the affair was described as a natural consequence for that worldview. McCauley was brought back to Orange County by the mob and lynched from a dogwood tree approximately three miles from Chapel Hill, perhaps in an area known as Calvander. Mrs. Brewer was returned to her father’s home in Orange County and she and Milton are buried together in Chapel Hill. Newspaper coverage protests a bit too much about this story, which would have benefitted the Democratic Party by humiliating a Republican individually and insulting the less-racist Republican Party as a whole. By shaming the Brewer and his wife, and by killing McCauley, the lynch mob achieved three victories.<br />
<br />
Documentation<br />
<br />
Death certificate: None available<br />
Census: None available<br />
<br />
News coverage:<br />
<br />
Two Lynchings in Two Weeks<br />
<br />
Negro and White Woman Elope<br />
<br />
The Body of McCauley Still Hangs<br />
<br />
The Negro Is Dead<br />
<br />
Location<br />
<br />
 Town: Carrboro, North Carolina<br />
<br />
Latitude/Longitude: 35.941563, -79.108538<br />
<br />
Rationale: Calvander. Reported as being 3 mile
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  • In 1898, Manley McCauley was accused of eloping with the wife of a prosperous white Orange County farmer and lynched from a tree on this road 3 miles north West of Chapel Hill NC.<br />
<br />
Source:<br />
http://lynching.web.unc.edu/the-people/manley-mccauley/<br />
1898-11-07<br />
Orange County, NC<br />
<br />
Alleged offense: Absconding with a white woman<br />
Race: Black<br />
Gender: Male<br />
Age: Unspecified<br />
Legal intervention (in alleged offense): Yes<br />
Legal intervention (following lynching): No<br />
Mob size: 18<br />
Mob members: Milton Brewer<br />
Alleged victim: N/A<br />
Household Status: Unmarried<br />
Occupation: Farmhand<br />
<br />
Manley McCauley was accused of eloping with the wife of a prosperous white Orange County farmer and Republican Party operative. The two absconded to Jonesboro, or so the story goes, pursued by a posse of 18 men. Local intelligence claims that Milton Brewer, the woman’s husband, was part of the posse though it is not clear whether he was a willing participant. He was scolded (as was his wife) for his belief in racial equality and the affair was described as a natural consequence for that worldview. McCauley was brought back to Orange County by the mob and lynched from a dogwood tree approximately three miles from Chapel Hill, perhaps in an area known as Calvander. Mrs. Brewer was returned to her father’s home in Orange County and she and Milton are buried together in Chapel Hill. Newspaper coverage protests a bit too much about this story, which would have benefitted the Democratic Party by humiliating a Republican individually and insulting the less-racist Republican Party as a whole. By shaming the Brewer and his wife, and by killing McCauley, the lynch mob achieved three victories.<br />
<br />
Documentation<br />
<br />
Death certificate: None available<br />
Census: None available<br />
<br />
News coverage:<br />
<br />
Two Lynchings in Two Weeks<br />
<br />
Negro and White Woman Elope<br />
<br />
The Body of McCauley Still Hangs<br />
<br />
The Negro Is Dead<br />
<br />
Location<br />
<br />
 Town: Carrboro, North Carolina<br />
<br />
Latitude/Longitude: 35.941563, -79.108538<br />
<br />
Rationale: Calvander. Reported as being 3 mile
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  • Lynching.<br />
On July 4th 1896 Sidney Randolph (28) was strung up from a chestnut tree and the woods across the train tracks from Frederick Road, now route 355 and lynched, less than a mile from the county seat.<br />
He was the last man lynched in Montgomery County MD.<br />
He was accused of the murder of a 7 yr old white girl, a crime he denied, and a no arrests were made of the lynch mob who came and forcibly took him from the authorities. <br />
<br />
In Maryland, all but two of 40 lynchings were of black men between the years 1867 and 1933.
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  • Lynching.<br />
On July 4th 1896 Sidney Randolph (28) was strung up from a chestnut tree and the woods across the train tracks from Frederick Road, now route 355 and lynched, less than a mile from the county seat.<br />
He was the last man lynched in Montgomery County MD.<br />
He was accused of the murder of a 7 yr old white girl, a crime he denied, and a no arrests were made of the lynch mob who came and forcibly took him from authoroties. <br />
<br />
In Maryland, all but two of 40 lynchings were of black men between the years 1867 and 1933.
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  • Lynching.<br />
On July 4th 1896 Sidney Randolph (28) was strung up from a chestnut tree and the woods across the train tracks from Frederick Road, now route 355 and lynched, less than a mile from the county seat.<br />
He was the last man lynched in Montgomery County MD.<br />
He was accused of the murder of a 7 yr old white girl, a crime he denied, and a no arrests were made of the lynch mob who came and forcibly took him from authorities. <br />
<br />
In Maryland, all but two of 40 lynchings were of black men between the years 1867 and 1933.
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  • Lynching.<br />
On July 4th 1896 Sidney Randolph (28) was strung up from a chestnut tree and the woods across the train tracks from Frederick Road, now route 355 and lynched, less than a mile from the county seat.<br />
He was the last man lynched in Montgomery County MD.<br />
He was accused of the murder of a 7 yr old white girl, a crime he denied, and a no arrests were made of the lynch mob who came and forcibly took him from authoroties. <br />
<br />
In Maryland, all but two of 40 lynchings were of black men between the years 1867 and 1933.
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  • Warrenton, Virginia.<br />
The old jail, now a history museum.<br />
Arthur Jordan was lynched Jan 19th 1890. He had run off with the daughter of his white employer and they eventually got married. The employer had him arrested in Washington DC and returned to Warrenton on bigamy charges (he was said to have been married to, and had a family with another woman).<br />
A group or armed men dragged him from the county jail in Warrenton and dragged him to the edge of the town cemetery where he was lynched.
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  • Warrenton, Virginia.<br />
The sheriff's office with the cemetery behind.<br />
Arthur Jordan was lynched Jan 19th 1890. He had run off with the daughter of his white employer and they eventually got married. The employer had him arrested in Washington DC and returned to Warrenton on bigamy charges (he was said to have been married to, and had a family with another woman).<br />
A group or armed men dragged him from the county jail in Warrenton and dragged him to the edge of the town cemetery where he was lynched.
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  • Gainesville, Virginia.<br />
On the night of march 18th 1892, Lee Heflin and Joseph Dye were lynched on the right side of the road just west of Gainesville for the robbery and murder of a widower and her three children. Both the victims and perpetrators were white and the lynch mob's feared that the men may avoid hanging for this crime.
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  • Gainesville, Virginia.<br />
On the night of march 18th 1892, Lee Heflin and Joseph Dye were lynched on the right side of the road just west of Gainesville for the robbery and murder of a widower and her three children. Both the victims and perpetrators were white and the lynch mob's feared that the men may avoid hanging for this crime.
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  • Lynching.<br />
On the 23rd April 1897, the black teenager Joseph McCoy was murdered by a lynch mob after being kidnapped from jail, shot beaten and hung from a lamppost on the south-east corner of Cameron and Lee streets in Alexandria.<br />
<br />
<br />
https://www.alexandriava.gov/uploadedFiles/historic/info/blackhistory/McCoyLynchingNarrative04162020.pdf
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  • Lynching.<br />
On the 23rd April 1897, the black teenager Joseph McCoy was murdered by a lynch mob after being kidnapped from jail, shot beaten and hung from a lamppost on the south-east corner of Cameron and Lee streets in Alexandria.<br />
<br />
<br />
https://www.alexandriava.gov/uploadedFiles/historic/info/blackhistory/McCoyLynchingNarrative04162020.pdf
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  • Lynching.<br />
On the 23rd April 1897, the black teenager Joseph McCoy was murdered by a lynch mob after being kidnapped from jail, shot beaten and hung from a lamppost on the south-east corner of Cameron and Lee streets in Alexandria.<br />
<br />
<br />
https://www.alexandriava.gov/uploadedFiles/historic/info/blackhistory/McCoyLynchingNarrative04162020.pdf
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  • Google Screenshot on Ceder Grove road, Efland, North Carolina taken in 2013 of a prison work detail cleaning the roadside under armed-guard in North Carolina.
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