What the records say
- When
- 1968
- Kind
- Murder
- Coordinates
- 39.43° N, 86.42° W
- Description
- African American woman murdered in 1968
- Date from
- year in its Wikidata description
Murder of Carol Jenkins
African American woman murdered in 1968
Carol Jenkins was a 21-year-old African-American woman who was stabbed once through the right atrium of her heart in a racist murder which occurred as she attempted to sell encyclopedias door to door in Martinsville, Indiana on September 16, 1968. Her murder occurred in an almost exclusively white city with a documented history of racial segregation.
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