lynching of Ed Johnson

When

1906

Kind

Murder

Coordinates

35.06° N, 85.31° W

Description

lynching in 1906 in Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States

African American who was lynched in the U.S.

On March 19, 1906, Ed Johnson, a young African American man, was murdered by a lynch mob in his home town of Chattanooga, Tennessee. He had been sentenced to death for the rape of Nevada Taylor, but Justice John Marshall Harlan of the United States Supreme Court had issued a stay of execution.

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