What the records say
- When
- 1922
- Kind
- Murder
- Coordinates
- 33.00° N, 90.00° W
- Description
- 1922 lynching in Mississippi, United States
- Date from
- year in its Wikidata description
Placed at the district its description names, Mississippi.
Lynching of Will Bell
1922 lynching in Mississippi, United States
Will Arthur Bell was lynched by a mob in Pontotoc County, Mississippi as the local sheriff tried to move him to prevent the lynching. According to the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary it was the 6th of 61 lynchings during 1922 in the United States.
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