What the records say
- When
- 18 Nov 1921
- Kind
- Murder
- Coordinates
- 34.53° N, 90.59° W
- Description
- lynching in 1921, in Helena, Arkansas, United States
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Lynching of William Turner
1921 Arkansas lynching
An 18-year-old African American named William Turner was lynched on November 18, 1921, in Helena, Arkansas, for an alleged assault on a 15-year-old white girl. Two years earlier hundreds of African-Americans were killed during the Elaine massacre in Hoop Spur, a nearby community also in Phillips County, Arkansas.
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