What the records say
- When
- 12 Jul 1898
- Kind
- Murder
- Coordinates
- 37.50° N, 79.00° W
- Description
- 1898 lynching
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Lynching of John Henry James
African American who was lynched in the U.S.
John Henry James was an African-American man who was lynched near Charlottesville, Virginia on July 12, 1898, for having allegedly raped a white woman. James had no known family in the area, and had lived in Charlottesville for only five or six years. He was an ice cream seller; "nothing else is known of him."
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