Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
This person was one of five Black people held in the jail in Albany, Georgia, when a mob came for them on the night of January 20, 1916. According to the Valdez Daily Prospector, the jail's guards refused to hand the prisoners over, and the mob battered down the jail doors. The mob took the five from the jail and lynched them.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.