Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
According to a December 1926 column by Norman Thomas in The Arizona Times, a Black person held in a South Carolina jail was taken from the jail by a mob and killed. The column alleges that police officers were accomplices in the killing. The column places this among other killings of Black people in the South in that period.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. Norman Thomas, in a 1926 opinion column, says a mob took a Black man from a South Carolina jail and killed him, with police officers alleged to be accomplices.
Reported by: Norman Thomas, author of the 1926 column (reporters).