Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
In 1943, a Black person whose name is not recorded was taken from a jail by a mob of masked men and shot to death. The Tuskegee Institute, which compiled lynching counts, listed the killing among three lynchings of Black people that year.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. Tuskegee Institute's records say a mob of masked men shot the unnamed person to death after taking them from a jail.
Reported by: Tuskegee Institute Department of Records and Research.