Deaths in Custody
Died in jail or a lockup

Name not reported

died November 1900 · Texas

This person was one of three Black men whom a mob took from a jail in Texas and hanged in November 1900, according to a yearly chronology printed in the Crittenden Press in January 1901. They were held in that jail when the mob seized them. The mob hanged them after taking them from the jail.

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

Reported by: Crittenden Press yearly chronology (reporters).

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