John Miami

John Miami, a Black man, was held in the Vicksburg, Mississippi, jail alongside Smith Tooley. According to The Evening World, on July 6, 1892, a mob rushed downstairs from the courtroom, where a hearing had broken down, to the prisoners and hanged both men in the courthouse yard that morning. The newspaper's account does not say how the jail's officers or sheriff responded to the mob. The spelling of his name in the surviving newspaper text is uncertain.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob hanged him in the courthouse yard after breaking into the Vicksburg jail.

Reported by: historical newspaper report (OCR text) (reporters).

Source

• The Evening World, July 6, 1892, page 2 The Evening World, July 6, 1892