What the records say
- When
- 25 Mar 1872
- Kind
- Murder
- Killed
- 1
- Coordinates
- 36.16° N, 86.77° W
- Description
- lynching in 1872, in Nashville, Tennessee, United States
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Lynching of David Jones
African American man who was lynched in the U.S.
David Jones was an African-American man who was lynched in Nashville, Tennessee on March 25, 1872, after being arrested as a suspect in a killing. He was mortally wounded while in jail, shot twice in the back while resisting white mob members who came to take him out; the whites pulled him into the Public Square and hanged him from a post outside the police station, with a crowd of an estimated 2,000 in attendance.
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