Black Lynch Mobs

Most people imagine a Southern lynch mob as whites lynching blacks.  (Extra points if you know about the mob that lynched a Jew for the National Pencil factory murder.)  In the West, whites lynching whites fits our prejudices.  But this surprised me:

Wickliffe, Ky. (1901)

9/11/1901: A black mob took three black men accused of murder from the jail and hung them.

Category: public

Suicide: no

Cause: lynch

Weapon: hung[1]

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[1] “Sight is Grewsome [sic]," Ottumwa Semi-Weekly Courier, Sept. 12, 1901, 1.