Name not reported

Tuskegee Institute's year-end count for 1941 recorded four lynchings, all of Black people. One of them was a Black person who had been held in a jail, and according to the Institute's Department of Records and Research a mob took them from custody and killed them. The Institute's figures do not give this person's name, age, sex, or the jail where they were held. The count was published by the Institute under its president, F. D. Patterson.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. Tuskegee Institute's year-end data counted four lynchings in 1941, one of them a man taken from a jail.

Reported by: Tuskegee Institute (President F. D. Patterson), Department of Records and Research.

Source

• The Guardian, January 10, 1942, page 1 The Guardian, January 10, 1942