Lynching of Robert Collins

There was an attempted assault of a young woman near Summit, Mississippi. Months later, in Ponchatoula, Louisiana, the section foreman of the Illinois Central Railroad, F. L. Blake "captured" Robert Collins and notified Marshal E.E. Blount of Summit, Mississippi. Marshal Blount travelled to Ponchatoula and escorted Collins across the State line to the house of the victim. Once there he allegedly confessed to the crime.[2] [3]

When word spread that Marshal E.E. Blount had a man in custody a crowd of 100 men gathered. They were able to seize Collins and took him to the scene of the attempted attack where he was hanged from a branch of a tree.[2] [3]

There were eight lynchings in Mississippi in 1922 only topped by Texas (16) and Georgia (11).[4]

• Alex Smith was a 60-year-old African-American man who was lynched in Gulfport, Mississippi on March 22, 1922.
• Will Bell was lynched on January 29, 1922, in Pontotoc, Mississippi.
• Will Thrasher was lynched on February 1, 1922, in Crystal Springs, Mississippi.
• William Baker was lynched on March 8, 1922, in Aberdeen, Mississippi.
• John Steelman was lynched on August 23, 1922, in Lambert, Mississippi.

Notes

References

• "Negro accused of attack is hanged". The Ogden Standard-Examiner. Ogden, Weber, Utah: Standard-Examiner Pub. Co. June 21, 1922. pp. 1–14. ISSN 2163-4785. OCLC 12983206. Retrieved March 4, 2022.
• "The Semi-Weekly Leader". The Semi-Weekly Leader. Brookhaven, Miss.: B.T. Hobbs. June 21, 1922. pp. 1–4. ISSN 2688-7835. OCLC 14867376. Retrieved March 4, 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.