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UPDATE: DOTHAN, Ala. (WDHN) – A couple wanted for the murder of a Houston County man were arrested over the weekend. 33-year-old Courtney Ingram and 31-year-old Richard Bishop Jr. were taken ...
Willie Lee Jenkins was lynched in Eufaula, Barbour County, Alabama. According to the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary it was the 3rd of 61 lynchings during 1922 in the United States. [ 1 ]
Pages in category "Lynching deaths in Alabama" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9.
The Shorter Cemetery is an American Civil War-era cemetery in Eufaula, Barbour County, Alabama, United States.The cemetery is located on 5 acres (2.0 ha) in the middle of downtown Eufaula, on a bluff overlooking Lake Eufaula near the Shorter home, which burned in 1885.
The White League had formed in 1874 as an insurgent, white Democratic paramilitary group in Grant Parish and nearby parishes [2] on the Red River of the South in Louisiana.The League was founded by members of the white militia who had committed the Colfax Massacre in Louisiana in 1873, killing numerous black people in order to turn out Republicans from parish offices as part of the disputed ...
The confrontation resulted in the deaths of Matewan Mayor Cabell Testerman, two striking coal miners, seven men from the Baldwin-Felts Detective Agency, and an unarmed bystander. Ocoee massacre: 1920 Nov 2 Ocoee: Florida: 56~ Black population of Ocoee, a town near Orlando, was nearly obliterated during the 1920 election season. [36] Tulsa race ...
The city is located along U.S. Highways 82 and 431 in southeast Alabama on the Georgia state line, adjacent to the city of Georgetown, Georgia, which is east across the Chattahoochee River from the city. U.S. 431 runs through the city from north to south as Eufaula Avenue, leading north 47 mi (76 km) to Phenix City and southwest 51 mi (82 km ...
Lacey Kirk Williams (1871, Eufaula, Alabama - 1940) was an African-American who served as President of the National Baptist Convention from 1922 to 1940 and as Vice President of the World Baptist Alliance between 1928 and 1940. [1] He died in an aeroplane crash in 1940. [1]