Lynching of Willie Lee Jenkins

Lynching of Willie Lee Jenkins
Part of Jim Crow Era
DateJanuary 10, 1922
LocationEufaula, Barbour County, Alabama
ParticipantsA white mob shoots Willie Lee Jenkins
Deaths1

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]

Background

According 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

He 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

Notes

  1. ^ United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary 1926, p. 17.
  2. ^ a b Henry 2018.
  3. ^ 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.