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]
| Part of Jim Crow Era | |
| Date | January 10, 1922 |
|---|---|
| Location | Eufaula, Barbour County, Alabama |
| Participants | A white mob shoots Willie Lee Jenkins |
| Deaths | 1 |
Background
editAccording to family oral history and local accounts within the Black community, Willie Jenkins had a dispute with his boss' wife which cost him his life.[2] Newspapers of the time reported that he "insulted a white woman."[3]
Lynching
editHe tried to escape by train but a mob dragged him off, took him into the woods and killed him.[2] His corpse was found in the bottom of a well in Barbour County, 4 miles (6.4 km) from Eufaula on the Batesville road.[3]
Bibliography
editNotes
- ^ United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary 1926, p. 17.
- ^ a b Henry 2018.
- ^ a b Americus Times-Recorder, January 11, 1922, p. 1.
References
- "Unidentified Negro Lynched at Eufaula". Americus Times-Recorder. Americus, Sumter, Georgia: Lovelace Eve. January 11, 1922. pp. 1–8. ISSN 2768-6922. OCLC 21134729. Retrieved January 29, 2022.
- Henry, Bryan (April 27, 2018). "Woman finds closure in seeing grandfather's name at lynching memorial". WSFA. Retrieved January 29, 2022.
- Robertson, Campbell (April 25, 2018). "A Lynching Memorial Is Opening. The Country Has Never Seen Anything Like It". The New York Times. Retrieved January 29, 2022.
- 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.