Lynching of Alfred Blount

Quand

1893

Type

Meurtre

Coordonnées

35.05° N, 85.31° W

Description

1893 lynching in Chattanooga, Tennessee

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year in its Wikidata description

Placé à : town its description names, Chattanooga.

1893 lynching in Chattanooga, Tennessee

On February 9, 1893, Alfred Blount, an African American and a Chattanooga native, was taken from his jail cell in the county jail and brutally beaten, stabbed, and hanged from the Walnut Street Bridge in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Blount was charged with assault of a woman by the name of Mrs. M. A. Moore. Moore, 51 and widowed, claimed she was cleaning her house when a man entered through her back door requesting food.

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