Died in jail or a lockup

Name not reported

Lincoln County Jail, Lincoln County, Mississippi

In 1884, a newspaper item reported that four Black people held at the jail in Brookhaven, Mississippi, were taken out and lynched by a mob. The jail held them, and the mob took them and killed them. The item gives no names for the four and no date for the killings.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched

Reported by: news reports.

Source

People And Patriot, October 2, 1884, page 5 People And Patriot, October 2, 1884

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