Battle of Middle Boggy Depot

Add links

Thomas Williams was an African-American man who was lynched by a mob in Memphis, Tennessee, on September 28, 1927.[1]

John R. Steelman, who wrote his PhD dissertation on "mob action in the South", listed Williams as one of the cases, wrote: "'The bullet-riddled body of Thomas Williams, alleged to have attacked a fifty-year old white woman, was found in Pleasant Union Churchyard, two miles from the scene of the crime' - near Memphis."[2]

References

  1. ^ "The Law's Too Slow". Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life. January 1928. p. 19. Retrieved May 23, 2021.
  2. ^ Steelman, John R. (1928). A Study of Mob Action in the South (PhD). University of North Carolina. p. 178.
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_Thomas_Williams