Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man was taken from a jail in Florida by a mob in the early hours of November 3, 1920, and killed, according to the Evening Herald. His death is placed within the violence that followed a dispute at the polls in Ocoee, where election officials had refused to let a Black man vote, and where five other Black people were burned to death and another was hanged.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.