What the records say
- When
- 15 Dec 1924
- Kind
- Murder
- Killed
- 1
- Coordinates
- 36.00° N, 86.69° W
- Description
- lynching in 1924, in Nolensville, Tennessee, United States
Lynching of Samuel Smith
African American who was lynched in the U.S.
Samuel Smith was a 15-year-old African-American youth who was lynched by a white mob, hanged and shot in Nolensville, Tennessee, on December 15, 1924. No one was ever convicted of the lynching.
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