Lynching of Alfred Blount

Quando

1893

Tipo

Homicídio

Coordenadas

35.05° N, 85.31° W

Description

1893 lynching in Chattanooga, Tennessee

Date from

year in its Wikidata description

Posicionado em: 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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