Cleveland Franklin
Cleveland Franklin, a Black man who worked for the Southern Cotton Oil Company in Dothan, Alabama, was in the custody of the sheriff there when a masked mob of about two hundred men took him and strung him up to a limb near a mill. He was later found alive and returned to the county jail, where a Richmond Planet dispatch from Dothan dated January 22, 1908 reports he died that morning from wounds inflicted by the mob. A later notice in the same paper calls him Grover Franklin.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A newspaper dispatch from Dothan, Alabama reports that a masked mob of about two hundred men took him from the sheriff, strung him up, and that he died the next morning of wounds the mob inflicted after he was returned to the county jail.
Reported by: Richmond Planet (newspaper dispatch from Dothan, Ala.) (reporters).