Keith Bowen was an African-American man who was lynched near Aberdeen, Monroe County, Mississippi by a white mob on August 14, 1889.
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| Date | August 14, 1889 |
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| Location | Aberdeen, Monroe County, Mississippi |
| Deaths | Keith Bowen |
Discovery
editBowen was found in the bedroom of a young white woman in the Lebanon community, about six miles south of Aberdeen and about nine miles from his place of employment, the farm of Charles Keith[1] while other reports say Charles Moore.[2] [3] After being discovered about 3:00 AM, Bowen fled[4] but was hunted down by a posse in a field two to three miles away from the young woman's house, turning him over to a justice of the peace.
Lynching
editHe was then taken quietly from his captors and hung.[5] The entire neighborhood was alleged to have taken Bowen from the custody of others and hanged him on the public road near where the alleged assault occurred.[4][6]
Other county lynchings
editIn 1914, Mayho Miller, an 18-year-old African-American boy, was lynched by a mob after an alleged assault.[7]
In 1922 an 18-year-old African-American man, William Baker was lynched in Aberdeen, Monroe County, Mississippi by a white mob on March 8. According to the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary it was the 14th of 61 lynchings during 1922 in the United States. [8]
See also
editBibliography
editNotes
- ^ Kansas City Gazette, August 15, 1889, p. 1.
- ^ Pittsburg Dispatch, August 14, 1889, p. 1.
- ^ Fort Worth Daily Gazette, August 15, 1889, p. 4.
- ^ a b Indiana Progress 1889, p. 6.
- ^ The Winston Signal, August 24, 1889, p. 1.
- ^ Montgomery Advertiser, April 22, 2018, p. A6.
- ^ East Mississippi Times, January 15, 1915.
- ^ United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary 1926, p. 17.
References
- "Mississippi shows low lynching record during 1914". East Mississippi Times. January 15, 1915. OCLC 16396509. Retrieved February 17, 2022.
- "Swift Justice". Fort Worth Daily Gazette. August 15, 1889. pp. 1–8. ISSN 1946-6080. OCLC 13695711. Retrieved October 29, 2023.
- "Negro Item". Kansas City Gazette. Kansas City, Wyandotte, Kansas. August 15, 1889. OCLC 12990378.
- "Lynched. Strung up for attempting an assault upon a young woman". Indiana Progress. Indiana, Pa.: R.M. Birkman. 1889. OCLC 10215219.
- "Lynching". Montgomery Advertiser. April 22, 2018. ISSN 2993-9151. OCLC 1393208361.
- "Negro Hanged by Citizens". Okolona Messenger. Okolona, Chickasaw, Mississippi: Abe Steinberger & Sons. March 9, 1922. pp. 1–8. ISSN 2469-7559. OCLC 16103582. Retrieved February 17, 2022.
- "A Mississippi Lynching". Pittsburg Dispatch. Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania: Rook, O'Neil & Co. August 14, 1889. pp. 1–8. ISSN 2157-1295. OCLC 2266159. Retrieved October 29, 2023.
- United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (1926). "To Prevent and Punish the Crime of Lynching: Hearings Before the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on S. 121, Sixty-Ninth Congress, First Session, on Feb. 16, 1926". United States Government Publishing Office. Retrieved January 23, 2022.
- "The Winston Signal". The Winston Signal. Louisville, Miss.: E.M. Hight & W.J. Newsom. 1889. OCLC 17689629.
- "Women seize Negro later found hanging to tree". The Washington Times. Washington, District of Columbia: William Randolph Hearst. March 8, 1922. pp. 1–22. ISSN 1941-0697. OCLC 10630160. Retrieved February 17, 2022.