Name not reported

A Black man held in the custody of the sheriff near Montgomery, Alabama, was taken from the sheriff by a mob and hanged in March 1900, according to a news dispatch published on March 4 of that year. The dispatch places the killing within a wider racial conflict in the area, which it describes as a threat of a race war. The reported killing was carried out by the mob, and the account here draws only on that single dispatch.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched

Reported by: news dispatch.

Source

• The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, March 4, 1900, page 11 The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, March 4, 1900