Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man held in the Morehouse Parish jail near Oak Ridge, Louisiana, was taken from the jail in daylight by a crowd of white men and hanged from a nearby tree, according to a July 1887 report in the Weekly Courier-Journal. A Fort Worth Daily Gazette report published on July 5, 1887, described a man held in the same jail being taken after a mass meeting of white residents and lynched. Both reports describe a mob taking a prisoner from the jail and killing him.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A crowd of white men took a Black man from the Morehouse Parish jail in daylight and hanged him from a nearby tree, according to the article.
Reported by: news reports.