Lawrence White
Lawrence White, a Black man, was killed in November 1883 at Mount Mourne, North Carolina, according to reports in the Austin Weekly Statesman and the Arkansas Weekly Mansion. The Arkansas paper says a group of about sixty-five men took him from officers and lynched him, and the Statesman says he was under arrest when the men seized him and hanged him. Neither account says where he was being held or whether the officers resisted, gave up the keys, or handed him over. No official account of the response was given in either report.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A group of about sixty-five men took Lawrence White from officers at Mount Mourne, North Carolina, and hanged him, according to newspaper reports.
Reported by: news reports.