Lynching of Dan Anderson
Dan Anderson was an African-American man who was murdered in Macon, Mississippi, on May 20, 1927 at the age of 32.[1][2] Anderson's father and grandfather had also been lynched.[3]
On May 15, 1927, Anderson was accused of killing T. C. Edwards, a white farmer from Cliftonville, Mississippi. Anderson allegedly ambushed and shot Edwards as he was approaching a tenant house on the property. The rifle used in the shooting was supposedly hidden by one of Anderson's friends, and was found in a chicken coop. Anderson had been a tenant at the Edwards farm preceding the alleged murder. He was arrested in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. A mob of 300 to 500 men overtook Noxubee County sheriff T. B. Adams and took Anderson to the woods, firing more then than 200 bullets into his body.[4]
References
- ^ "The Law's Too Slow". Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life. January 1928. p. 19.
- ^ "The Jim Crow Era: A Solemn Roll Call Of Those Brutally Murdered". PoliticsNY. February 24, 2020. Retrieved April 20, 2021.
- ^ "2d In Family Lynched by Mob". Courier-Journal. May 20, 1927. Retrieved April 21, 2021.
- ^ "Macon Negro Lynched For Killing Man," Clarion-Ledger, May 21, 1927, pg 1.
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