Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
According to a 1926 column by Norman Thomas, this Black person was one of three people a mob took from a South Carolina jail and killed. The column says police officers were alleged to have been accomplices in the killings. Thomas wrote that authorities acted only after pressure from the NAACP and the New York World.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. Norman Thomas's 1926 column says a mob took three Black people from a South Carolina jail and killed them, with police officers alleged to be accomplices.
Reported by: Norman Thomas, author of the column (reporters).