What the records say
- When
- 21 Oct 1916
- Kind
- Murder
- Coordinates
- 34.18° N, 82.38° W
- Description
- lynching in 1916, in Abbeville, South Carolina, United States
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Lynching of Anthony Crawford
African American who was lynched in the U.S.
Anthony Crawford was a highly successful African American landowner, around the turn of the 20th century. He was murdered by a lynch mob in Abbeville, South Carolina on October 21, 1916. It was a crime that went unpunished.
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