Sallie Leighton
Salite Leighton was held at the Carrollton jail in Mississippi with her mother and half-brother when, according to the Alexandria Gazette, a mob took her from the jail on August 1, 1901, and lynched her. The Washington Times reports that the mob, about 500 white men, hanged her from a tree by the roadside near the edge of town and shot her body many times. The paper says the district judge and district attorney pleaded with the crowd to let the law take its course, but the mob did not stop. The Gazette places her among three Black people the mob killed that day. The accounts differ on how she was killed.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob took Salite Leighton from the Carrollton jail and killed her; the Alexandria Gazette reported that she was one of three Black people lynched, and the judge and district attorney pleaded with the crowd to stop.
Reported by: Alexandria Gazette (reporters).