Name not reported

Ten Black people were being held in a village jail in South Carolina in 1871. The Sub Ku-Klux Committee reported that several hundred Ku Klux, acting under a military organization, took them from the jail and killed them. The committee investigated the killings during its visit that year.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The Sub Ku-Klux Committee investigated the killings of ten Black people taken from a village jail in South Carolina by several hundred Ku-Klux.

Reported by: Sub Ku-Klux Committee (outside investigators).

Source

• Nashville Union And American, July 30, 1871, page 1 Nashville Union And American, July 30, 1871