Died in custody

Jenkins

Mississippi

Jenkins, a Black man, was one of four men held in the custody of a deputy sheriff near Van Cleave, Mississippi. According to a March 1908 report in The Tupelo Journal, a mob took the four men from the deputy and lynched them. Jenkins was one of those four men.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched

Reported by: news reports.

News report

The Tupelo Journal, March 20, 1908, page 8 The Tupelo Journal, March 20, 1908

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