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Lynching of Willie Lee Jenkins

Background[edit]

According to his grand daughter Shirley Johnson, her grandfather 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[edit]

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[edit]

Notes

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.