Dick Whitehead

Dick Whitehead, a Black man, died in May 1904 near Seaboard, North Carolina. According to a dispatch from Weldon, North Carolina, printed in the Portland Daily Press, he was being taken in a buggy by a policeman toward the jail at Seaboard when a crowd of men overtook them. The crowd tore him from the officer's buggy and hanged him from a nearby tree. The dispatch is the source for these events.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Weldon, N.C. dispatch printed in the Portland Daily Press says a crowd of men took him from a policeman's buggy on the way to the Seaboard jail and hanged him from a nearby tree.

Reported by: Weldon, N.C. dispatch as printed in the Portland Daily Press (reporters).

Source

• The Portland Daily Press, May 20, 1904, page 2 The Portland Daily Press, May 20, 1904