Died in jail or a lockup
Oscar Beasley
Oscar Beasly, a Black man, was held in the Brazoria County jail at Angleton, Texas, in September 1920. According to an Associated Press dispatch datelined Houston, a mob of about three hundred people took him from the jail and lynched him. A second report of the same dispatch gives September 16, 1920, as the date of his death. He was 2 held by the county when a mob took him from the jail and killed him.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. An Associated Press dispatch from Houston reports that a group of people took Oscar Beasly from the Brazoria County jail and lynched him.
Reported by: Associated Press (reporters).