What the records say
- When
- 26 Dec 1920
- Kind
- Murder
- Coordinates
- 35.84° N, 90.70° W
- Description
- lynching in 1920, in Jonesboro, Arkansas, United States
Lynching of Wade Thomas
African American who was lynched in the U.S.
On December 26, 1920, an African-American man named Wade Thomas was lynched in Jonesboro, Arkansas, by a white mob. The mob seized Thomas from the Jonesboro jail after he was charged with shooting a local police patrolman, Aylmer Ragland.
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