Lynching of Joe Winters

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Lynching in Conroe, Texas
Part of Jim Crow Era
News coverage of the lynching of Winters-Montgomery County Conroe.jpg
News coverage of the Lynching of Joe Winters
DateMay 20, 1922
Location Conroe, Montgomery County, Texas
ParticipantsA white mob made up of hundreds of people. "A larger crowd than ... the circus" [1]
DeathsJoe Winters

Joe Winters was a 20-year-old African-American man who was lynched in Conroe, Montgomery County, Texas by a mob on May 20, 1922. According to the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary it was the 27th of 61 lynchings during 1922 in the United States. [2]

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Background

A 14-year-old girl was allegedly assaulted on Friday, 4:00 PM, May 19, 1920, near Leonidas, Texas. Rudolph Manning was initially rounded up and smuggled to Houston, Texas by his employer W.H. Biggers, M.A. Anderson, former sheriff of Montgomery County and J.W. Baker but present day Montgomery Sheriff Hicks brought him back to Conroe and then to Leonidas where the victim said it wasn't him. [3]

A large crowd gathered in Conroe and rumours swirled that a new suspect, Joe Winters, had taken a horse near Waukegan, Texas. He was spotted 2 miles (3.2 km) from Waukegan on his way to Youens, Texas. Police arrested him at 2:00 PM on Saturday, May 20, 1922, and he was taken to Leonidas where the victim was allegedly able to identify him. [4]

Lynching

Since the alleged attack, local newspapers had been calling for a crowd to gather and by the time of the positive identification thousands of people had gathered in Conroe, Texas. [1] When Montgomery Sheriff Hicks returned to Conroe, he was quickly overpowered and the mob seized Winters and chained him to an iron post in courthouse square, where he had oil boxes stacked around him. The pile was ignited and he was burned alive proclaiming his innocence. [5]

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Notes

  1. 1 2 The Crisis, November, 1922, p. 37.
  2. ↑ United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary 1926, p. 17.
  3. ↑ Conroe Courier, May 26, 1922.
  4. ↑ New York Times, May 21, 1922, p. 18.
  5. ↑ The Chicago Defender, June 3, 1922.

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