What the records say
- When
- 8 Sep 1940
- Kind
- Murder
- Coordinates
- 33.04° N, 85.03° W
- Description
- lynching in 1940, in LaGrange, Georgia, United States
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Lynching of Austin Callaway
1940 lynching in LaGrange, Georgia, US
Austin Callaway,, also known as Austin Brown, was a young African-American man who was taken from jail by a group of six white men and lynched on September 8, 1940, in LaGrange, Georgia. The day before, Callaway had been arrested as a suspect in the attempted rape of a white woman. The gang carried out extrajudicial punishment and prevented the youth from ever receiving a trial.
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