Died in custody

Joe Spinner Johnson

Alabama

Joe Spinner Johnson was described in a 1935 Atlanta Daily World report as a sharecropper leader. He was being held in a jail in Alabama when a mob took him from custody and lynched him near Greensboro. The death was reported in the press in October 1935.

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

News report

Atlanta Daily World, October 1, 1935, page 6 Atlanta Daily World, October 1, 1935

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