Will Jackson
Will Jackson was one of three Black men from Memphis whom a mob took from the Tunica, Mississippi jail in the early hours of October 1907. His body was found hanging from a telegraph pole in front of the depot. According to the sheriff's office, as reported by the Birmingham Age-Herald, the sheriff and his deputies did not know when the men were taken and believed the captors used jail keys. A coroner's inquest did not assign responsibility for the lynching.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob took Will Jackson from the Tunica, Miss., jail early one morning and hanged him from a telephone pole; the sheriff said he and his deputies did not know when the men were taken and believed the captors used jail keys.
Reported by: Sheriff of Tunica County, Mississippi (the agency that held him); Coroner's inquest (medical examiner or coroner); Mobile dispatch citing a special from Tunica, Miss. (reporters).