Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Four young Black people held at the Shubuta jail in Shubuta, Mississippi, were taken from the jail and lynched from a bridge over the Chickasawhay River, according to a 1955 Atlanta Daily World editorial. The editorial says later evidence showed the four were innocent. Their names and ages are not given in the account, and the date of the killing is not clearly readable in the text.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: Atlanta Daily World editorial (historical account) (reporters).