Name not reported
On November 2, 1920, a mob broke into the city jail in Orlando, Florida, took a man from custody and hanged him from a tree nearby, according to a Nenana Daily News account. The night's violence began with a fight at the polls on election day, after election officials refused to let a Black man vote over an unpaid poll tax. A mob also burned five other Black people in a house that same night, but they were not held in custody. The Alaska Daily Empire reports the same mob taking a person from the city jail and killing them, without naming them or describing how they were killed.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A 1920 newspaper report says a mob took him from the Orlando city jail and hanged him from a tree.
Reported by: 1920 newspaper account of the Orlando election-day violence (reporters).