What the records say
- When
- 1 Jul 1922
- Kind
- Murder
- Coordinates
- 31.80° N, 81.46° W
- Description
- lynching in 1922, in Liberty County, Georgia, United States
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Lynching of James Harvey and Joe Jordan
Lynching of two African-American men
James Harvey and Joe Jordan were two African-American men who were lynched on July 1, 1922, in Liberty County, Georgia, United States. They were seized by a mob of about 50 people and hanged while being transported by police from Wayne County to a jail in Savannah. Investigations by the NAACP showed that the police involved were complicit in their abduction by the mob.
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