Lynching of Charles Strong

Lynching of Charles Strong in Mayo, Florida

Part of Jim Crow Era
News coverage of the Lynching of Charles Strong
Date	January 17, 1922
Location	Mayo, Lafayette County, Florida
Participants	A white mob of 1,000 people lynched in Mayo, Florida
Deaths	1

Charles Strong was lynched in Mayo, Florida. According to the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary it was the 5th of 61 lynchings during 1922 in the United States. ^[1]

Background

Mailman W.R. Taylor was the son of a well-known naval stores operator in Mayo, Florida. ^[2] On Saturday, January 14, 1922, he entered the home of Charles Strong to investigate a dispute. In this home, around midnight, he was shot and killed by a shotgun. ^[3] Charles Strong, accused of firing the gun, claimed that another man held the shotgun but he fled anyway and was on the run for three days before he was arrested by police. ^[3]

Lynching

The police were taking Strong to jail when they were met by a white mob of 1,000 people. They seized Strong, hanged him from a tree, and riddled his hanging corpse with bullets. ^[2]

Bibliography

Notes

1. United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary 1926, p. 17.
2. Richmond Times-Dispatch, January 18, 1922, p. 1.
3. The Pensacola Journal, January 18, 1922, p. 1.

References

• "Victim killed W.R. Taylor, son of a well known Naval Stores Operator last Saturday Night". The Pensacola Journal. Pensacola, Escambia, Florida: Mayes & Co. January 18, 1922. pp. 1–8. ISSN   1941-109X. OCLC   16280864 . Retrieved January 29, 2022.
• "Negro Lynched by mob of 1,000 men". Richmond Times-Dispatch . Richmond, Virginia: Times Dispatch Pub. Co. January 18, 1922. pp. 1–12. ISSN   2333-7761. OCLC   9493729 . 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.