lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith

When

7 Aug 1930

Kind

Murder

Killed

2

Coordinates

40.55° N, 85.66° W

Description

lynching in 1930, in Marion, Indiana, United States

Placed at the area, not an exact site.

1930 lynching of African-American prisoners in Marion, Indiana

J. Thomas Shipp and Abraham S. Smith were two young African-American men who were murdered in a spectacle lynching by a group of thousands on August 7, 1930, in Marion, Indiana. They were taken out from their jail cells, beaten, and hanged from a tree in the county courthouse square. They had been arrested that night as suspects in the attack of a white couple.

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