| Part of Jim Crow Era | |
 News coverage of the Lynching of William Baker | |
| Date | March 8, 1922 |
|---|---|
| Location | Monroe County, Mississippi |
| Deaths | William Baker |
William Baker was an 18-year-old African-American man who was lynched in Monroe County, Mississippi by a white mob on March 8, 1922. According to the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary it was the 14th of 61 lynchings during 1922 in the United States. [1]
Between Okolona and Aberdeen, Mississippi, 18-year-old farmhand William Baker was putting a buggy into its shed when the six-year-old daughter of Constable Sidney Johnson got into it. Baker allegedly then took the girl to a shed where she started screaming. Her mother came running and grabbed hold of him. A white mob quickly gathered and hanged Baker. [2] His body was discovered by Sheriff Lewis hanging from a Chinaberry tree. [3] The Chicago Whip writes the lynching took place 10 miles (16 km) from Aberdeen, Mississippi. [4]
In 1899, Keith Bowen, an African-American man was lynched by a mob after an alleged assault. [5] In 1914, Mayho Miller, an 18-year-old Negro boy, was lynched by a mob after an alleged assault. [6]
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Monroe County is a county on the northeast border of the U.S. state of Mississippi next to Alabama. As of the 2020 census, the population was 34,180. Its county seat is Aberdeen.
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