We all have a certain image of a lynching in the South: white mob inflamed with racist rage drags away black person accused of a crime, and without any delay burn or hang the persons accused of the crime. But on my current research project, I have run into black lynch mobs killing blacks accused of horrible crimes; armed black mobs protecting the jail from a traditional lynch mob; a white lynch mob who lynched several blacks and a white. Today's variation:
Henderson, Tex. (1905)
11/12/1905: A lynch mob removed five blacks accused of murder from the jail. They “tried” them, returned two to the jail, and hung the other three. “Not a shot was fired or a loud word spoken at the lynching. The mob performed its work so quietly that persons living less than a block from the jail were not awakened.”
Category: public
Suicide: no
Cause: lynching
Weapon: hung[1]
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