Samuel Fields
Sam Fields, a young Black man, was shot to death near Whitehall in Livingston Parish, Louisiana, on the night of August 22, 1900, according to a New Orleans dispatch reprinted in The Savannah Morning News. That account says officers were holding him when a mob of white men took him from them and shot him. A later brief in the Semi-Weekly Messenger gives the date as August 23 and says the mob took him from officers and put him to death.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A New Orleans news dispatch reprinted in The Savannah Morning News says a mob of white men shot Sam Fields to death near Whitehall, Louisiana, after taking him from officers.
Reported by: New Orleans news dispatch reprinted in The Savannah Morning News (reporters); Semi-Weekly Messenger brief (reporters).