What the records say
- When
- 8 Jun 1927
- Kind
- Murder
- Coordinates
- 34.22° N, 90.95° W
- Description
- lynching in 1927, in Mellwood, Arkansas, United States
Lynching of Owen Flemming
1927 lynching of a Black man in Arkansas
Owen Flemming or Flemings was an African-American man who was lynched by a mob near Mellwood, Arkansas, on June 8, 1927, after an altercation with a white man who attempted to force him to work on a levee during the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927.
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