Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black person held in a Mississippi jail was taken from the jail and hanged by a mob on the morning of Sunday, May 11, 1879, according to a Philadelphia North American report reprinted in the Daily Kennebec Journal. The report says two people were taken from the jail in this way and links the killings to other lynchings in the state while a constitutional convention was being called.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: Philadelphia North American, as quoted by the Daily Kennebec Journal (reporters).