What the records say
- When
- 1901
- Kind
- Murder
- Coordinates
- 36.26° N, 86.07° W
- Description
- lynching of a Black woman in Tennessee, 1901
- Date from
- year in its Wikidata description
Lynching of Ballie Crutchfield
1901 murder of a Black woman in Tennessee
On March 15, 1901, an African American woman named Ballie Crutchfield was lynched by a white mob in Rome, Tennessee. The mob had tried to murder her brother earlier that night, but was unsuccessful and took vengeance on his sister Ballie - she was bound, shot, and thrown into a creek.
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