Leo Frank

Leo Frank

male, deceased (1915)
Lynching, From Atlanta, From Brooklyn, Leo Max Frank, Wrongful convictions, from New York City…LynchingintheUnitedStates
Leo Max Frank (April 17, 1884 - August 17, 1915) was an American Jew, whose lynching by a mob of prominent citizens in Marietta, Georgia, in 1915...
James Cameron

James Cameron

male, deceased (2006)
Lymphoma death, African-American history, African Americans' rights activist, nonviolence, social justice, civil disobedience…LynchingintheUnitedStates
James Cameron (February 23, 1914 in La Crosse, Wisconsin - June 11, 2006 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) was a civil rights activist. He founded America's...
Michael Donald

Michael Donald

male, deceased (1981)
drug deal, drugdealer, Associated Press, ku klux klan, michael, life sentence…Lynching, LynchingintheUnitedStates
Michael Donald (July 24, 1961 - March 20, 1981) was picked at random as the victim of a lynching by two Ku Klux Klan members in Mobile, Alabama in...
Thomas Shipp

Thomas Shipp

male, deceased (1930)
Jewish, African American, African-American history, ku klux klan, Jewish person, Lynching…LynchingintheUnitedStates
Thomas Shipp was an African-American who was lynched on August 7, 1930 in Marion, Indiana along with Abram Smith. They had been arrested the night...
Abram Smith

Abram Smith

male, deceased (1930)
Jewish, African American, African-American history, Jewish person, Lynching, LynchingintheUnitedStates
Abram Smith and Thomas Shipp were lynched on August 7, 1930 in Marion, Indiana. They had been arrested the night before, charged with robbing and...

Mack Charles Parker

male, deceased (1959)
African American, pearl river, American, Kidnapping, rape, murder victim…LynchingintheUnitedStates
Mack Charles Parker was a victim of lynching in the United States.
Henry Plummer

Henry Plummer

male, deceased (1864)
from Montana, nevada city, LynchingintheUnitedStates, sheriff, American, san quentin…most competent man for the job, leader, and the vigilantes marched on Plummer, leader of the road agents, cruelly murdered by the road agent gang
Henry Plummer (1832 - 1864) served as sheriff of Bannack, Montana, from May 24, 1863 until January 10, 1864, when he was hanged without trial by...
Wesley Everest

Wesley Everest

male, deceased (1919)
World War I, industrial worker of the world, american legion, American, murder victim, LynchingintheUnitedStates
Wesley Everest was a member of the Industrial Workers of the World and a World War I veteran. He was killed during the Centralia Massacre after...
William J. Simmons

William J. Simmons

male, deceased (1945)
Johns Hopkins University alumni, stone mountain, Ku Klux Klan member, ku klux klan, spanish-american war, Johns Hopkins University…the birth of a nation, Lynching, LynchingintheUnitedStates, Woodmen of the World
William Joseph Simmons (1880-May 18, 1945) was the founder of the second Ku Klux Klan in 1915. Simmons served in the Spanish-American War, and...
William L. Patterson

William L. Patterson

male, deceased (1980)
lawyer, American, communist, communist party usa, African-American, genocide…LynchingintheUnitedStates
William L. Patterson (1890-1980) was a leader in the Communist Party USA and head of the International Labor Defense, a group that offered legal...