Murder

Lynching of Alfred Blount

1893 · 35.05° N, 85.31° W

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When
1893
Kind
Murder
Coordinates
35.05° N, 85.31° W
Description
1893 lynching in Chattanooga, Tennessee
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Placed at the town its description names, Chattanooga.

Lynching of Alfred Blount

1893 lynching in Chattanooga, Tennessee

On February 9, 1893, Alfred Blount, an African American and a Chattanooga native, was taken from his jail cell in the county jail and brutally beaten, stabbed, and hanged from the Walnut Street Bridge in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Blount was charged with assault of a woman by the name of Mrs. M. A. Moore. Moore, 51 and widowed, claimed she was cleaning her house when a man entered through her back door requesting food.

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