Deaths in Custody
Died in jail or a lockup

One of 4 people whose names were not reported

died September 20, 1900 · Orleans Parish, Louisiana

Four Black people were held at a jail in New Orleans, Louisiana, when a mob took them from the jail and killed them on September 20, 1900. The Caucasian newspaper reported the killings in a brief item published September 27, 1900. Each of the four is remembered here only as a person whose life ended in that mob violence.

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

Reported by: news reports.

News report