What the records say
- When
- 1899
- Kind
- Murder
- Coordinates
- 39.83° N, 98.58° W
- Description
- black lynching victim in Alexandria, VA (1899)
- Date from
- year in its Wikidata description
Placed at the country: the source names no closer place.
Lynching of Benjamin Thomas
Black lynching victim in Alexandria, VA (1899)
Benjamin Thomas was a 16-year-old Black teenager who was lynched in Alexandria, Virginia on August 8, 1899. He had been arrested the day before and put into jail before a mob broke into the jail, dragging him outside, before beating him and ultimately he was hanged to death. He was the second of two reported lynching victims in Alexandria; the first, almost two years earlier, was Joseph H. McCoy.
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