Lynching of Willie Lee Jenkins explained
| Event Name: | Lynching of Willie Lee Jenkins |
| Participants: | A white mob shoots Willie Lee Jenkins |
| Date: | January 10, 1922 |
| Deaths: | 1 |
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.
Background
According to his grand daughter Shirley Johnson, her grandfather had a dispute with his boss' wife which cost him his life. Newspapers of the time reported that he "insulted a white woman."
Lynching
He tried to escape by train but a mob dragged him off, took him into the woods and killed him. His corpse was found in the bottom of a well in Barbour County, 4miles from Eufaula on the Batesville road.
Bibliography
NotesReferences
- News: . January 11, 1922. Unidentified Negro Lynched at Eufaula. Americus Times-Recorder. Lovelace Eve. Americus, Sumter, Georgia. 2768-6922. 21134729. 1–8. January 29, 2022 .
- Web site: Henry. Bryan . April 27, 2018. Woman finds closure in seeing grandfather's name at lynching memorial. WSFA. January 29, 2022 .
- Web site: Robertson. Campbell . April 25, 2018. A Lynching Memorial Is Opening. The Country Has Never Seen Anything Like It. . The New York Times. January 29, 2022 .
- Web site: United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary. 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. January 23, 2022 .
