Lynching of Dan Anderson
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Lynching of a Black man in Mississippi, 1927
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 had also been lynched.[3] Anderson was accused of killing T. C. Edwards, a white farmer from Cliftonville, Mississippi. He was arrested in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. A mob of 300 to 500 men followed him and fired more than 200 bullets into his body.
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. Retrieved April 20, 2021.
- ^ "2d In Family Lynched by Mob". Courier-Journal. May 20, 1927. Retrieved April 21, 2021.
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