Lynching of William Baker

Between Okolona and Aberdeen, Mississippi, 18-year-old farmhand William Baker was putting a buggy into its shed when the six-year-old daughter of Constable Sidney Johnson got into it. Baker allegedly then took the girl to a shed where she started screaming. Her mother came running and grabbed hold of him. A white mob quickly gathered and hanged Baker.^[2] His body was discovered by Sheriff Lewis hanging from a Chinaberry tree.^[3] The Chicago Whip writes the lynching took place 10 miles (16 km) from Aberdeen, Mississippi.^[4]

In 1899, Keith Bowen, a black man was lynched by a mob after an alleged assault.^[5] In 1914, Mayho Miller, an 18-year-old black man, was lynched by a mob after an alleged assault.^[6]

Notes

References

• "18 Yr. old boy hanged by Mississippi Mob". The Chicago Whip. Chicago, Cook County, Illinois: Whip Pub. Co. March 18, 1922. pp. 1–8. ISSN 2694-099X. OCLC 15192974. Retrieved February 17, 2022.
• "Mississippi shows low lynching record during 1914". East Mississippi Times. January 15, 1915. OCLC 16396509. Retrieved February 17, 2022.
• "Negro Hanged by Citizens". Okolona Messenger. Okolona, Chickasaw, Mississippi: Abe Steinberger & Sons. March 9, 1922. pp. 1–8. ISSN 2469-7559. OCLC 16103582. Retrieved February 17, 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.
• "Women seize Negro later found hanging to tree". The Washington Times. Washington, District of Columbia: William Randolph Hearst. March 8, 1922. pp. 1–22. ISSN 1941-0697. OCLC 10630160. Retrieved February 17, 2022.