Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A 25-year-old Black man was being held in a jail in Virginia in November 1920. A Bristol, Virginia newspaper dispatch, as reported in the Omaha Daily Bee, says a mob took him from the jail and hanged him from a bridge near Kent Junction. The report names no one who was held and gives no further detail about the man himself.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Bristol, Va. newspaper dispatch reports that a mob took the man from a Virginia jail and hanged him from a bridge near Kent Junction.
Reported by: newspaper report (Bristol, Va. dispatch) (reporters).