Lynching of Keith Bowen
Keith Bowen was an African-American man who was lynched near Aberdeen, Monroe County, Mississippi by a white mob on August 14,1889.
Bowen was found in the bedroom of a young white woman in the Lebanon community, about six miles south of Aberdeen and about nine miles from his place of employment, the farm of Charles Keith.[1] After being discovered about 3:00 AM, Bowen fled[2] but was hunted down by a posse in a field two to three miles away from the young woman's house, turning him over to a justice of the peace. He was then taken quietly from his captors and hung.[3] The entire neighborhood was alleged to have taken Bowen from the custody of others and hanged him on the public road near where the alleged assault occurred.[2][4]
See also
In 1914, Mayho Miller, an 18-year-old Negro boy, was lynched by a mob after an alleged assault.[5]
In 1922 an 18-year-old African-American man, William Baker was lynched in Aberdeen, Monroe County, Mississippi by a white mob on March 8. According to the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary it was the 14th of 61 lynchings during 1922 in the United States. [6]
Bibliography
Notes
- "Negro Item". Kansas City Gazette. August 15, 1889. p. 1.
- "Lynched. Strung up for attempting an assault upon a young woman". Indiana Progress. p. 6.
- "Served Him Right". Winston Signal. August 24, 1889. p. 1.
- "Lynching". Montgomery Advertiser. April 22, 2018. p. A6.
- East Mississippi Times, January 15, 1915.
- United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary 1926, p. 17.
References
- "Mississippi shows low lynching record during 1914". East Mississippi Times. January 15, 1915. OCLC 16396509. Retrieved February 17, 2022.
- "Negro Hanged by Citizens". Okolona Messenger. Okolona, Chickasaw, Mississippi: Abe Steinberger & Sons. March 9, 1922. pp. 1–8. ISSN 2469-7559. OCLC 16103582. Retrieved February 17, 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.
- "Women seize Negro later found hanging to tree". The Washington Times. Washington, District of Columbia: William Randolph Hearst. March 8, 1922. pp. 1–22. ISSN 1941-0697. OCLC 10630160. Retrieved February 17, 2022.