What the records say
- When
- 16 Feb 1947
- Kind
- Murder
- Killed
- 1
- Coordinates
- 34.84° N, 82.39° W
- Description
- lynching in 1947, in Greenville, South Carolina, United States
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Lynching of Willie Earle
African American who was lynched in the U.S.
The lynching of Willie Earle took place in Greenville, South Carolina on February 16, 1947, when Earle, a 24-year-old black man, was arrested, taken from his jail cell and murdered. It is considered the last lynching to occur in South Carolina, although the racially-motivated murder of Betty Gardner by four white people in 1978 has also been described as a lynching.
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