Died in jail or a lockup

Pratt Hampton

died June 2, 1917 · Marion County, Mississippi

Pratt Hampton, a Black man, was being held in the jail in Columbia, Mississippi. On June 2, 1917, a crowd of about one hundred people, including a few white men, took him from that jail. The crowd hanged him from a steel bridge. He was one of two Black men the crowd took from the jail that day.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A crowd of about one hundred people took Pratt Hampton from a jail in Columbia, Mississippi, and hanged him from a steel bridge.

Reported by: news reports.

Source

The Broad Ax, June 9, 1917, page 4 The Broad Ax, June 9, 1917

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