Alex Johnson
Alex Johnson, a Black man, was held in the jail at Cameron, Texas, in early November 1907, when a mob of several hundred men broke into the building, seized him and hanged him from a tree in the courthouse yard. Papers report that officers and influential citizens pleaded with the crowd to let the law take its course before the jail doors were battered down. The governor was reported to have ordered out the militia, which arrived too late to save him. Accounts differ on whether he died on November 4 or 5, and on whether the crowd numbered about 500 or 800.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. News accounts say a mob took Alex Johnson from the Cameron, Texas, jail and hanged him from a tree in the courthouse yard after officers and citizens pleaded with them to stop.
Reported by: news reporting on the 1907 Cameron lynching (reporters).