Murder

lynching of Leonard Woods

30 Nov 1927 · 37.15° N, 82.63° W

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When
30 Nov 1927
Kind
Murder
Coordinates
37.15° N, 82.63° W
Description
lynching in 1927, in Pound Gap, Kentucky/Virginia, United States

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Lynching of Leonard Woods

1927 lynching of a Black man in Kentucky

Leonard Woods was an African-American man who was lynched by a mob in Pound Gap, on the border between Kentucky and Virginia, after they broke him out of jail in Whitesburg, Kentucky, on November 30, 1927. Woods was alleged to have killed the foreman of a mine, Herschel Deaton. A mob of people from Kentucky and Virginia took him from the jail and away from town and hanged him, and riddled his body with shots.

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