What the records say
- When
- 1937
- Kind
- Murder
- Coordinates
- 33.63° N, 89.71° W
- Description
- 1937 lynching in the United States
- Date from
- year in its Wikidata description
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Lynching of Roosevelt Townes and Robert McDaniels
1937 lynching in the United States
On April 13, 1937, Roosevelt Townes and Robert McDaniels, two black men, were lynched in Duck Hill, Mississippi, United States, by a white mob after being labeled as the murderers of a white storekeeper. They had only been legally accused of the crime a few minutes before they were kidnapped from the courthouse, chained to trees, and tortured with a blow torch.
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