Location(s): Birmingham, Alabama Year: 1946 On Monday, August 5, 1946, Officers F.R. Brockman and J.A. Hale shot and killed Harrison Lee outside Lee’s barbershop in Birmingham, Alabama. Lee was thirty-nine years old and…
Location: Birmingham, Alabama Year: 1943 – 1950 Officer James Albert Hale, Jr. was involved in the deaths of five African American men in the span of less than eight years, from 1943-1950. In two…
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On November 17, 2020, CRRJ brought descendant families together with leaders of US reparations movements, racial justice activists, and scholars to discuss compensatory reparations…
Location(s): Chicksaw County, Mississippi Decade: 1940s On On July 2, 1949, Malcolm Wright, 48 years old, was beaten to death by James Moore, Eunice Gore, and James “Red” Kellum in front of his…
Location(s): Brownsville, Tennessee Decade: 1940s On June 23, 1940, the beaten, bruised, and shot body of Elbert Williams, a member of the Brownsville Chapter of the NAACP, was found drowned in the Hatchie…
Location(s): Durham, North Carolina Decade: 1940s On July 8, 1944 Pvt. Booker T. Spicely boarded a west bound Duke Power Company bus at the corner of Fayetteville and Pettigrew Street in Durham, North…
Location(s): Mobile, Alabama Decade: 1940s On July 8, 1945, 25-year-old Prentiss McCann, Army veteran and father of three, was shot twice and killed by police officer Melvin Porter at the Midway Club in…
Location(s): Woodville, Mississippi Decade: 1940s On September 8, 1945, Tom Jones Jr., 24 years old, was shot and killed by David McDonald, a Woodville night officer, at a Greyhound bus stop in Woodville,…
Location(s): Nacogdoches, Texas Decade: 1940s On March 13, 1948, Ellis Hutson Sr. was shot and killed by Constable Travis Helpenstill at the Nacogdoches County Courthouse in Nacogdoches, Texas. On May 28, 1948, Helpenstill…
Location(s): Troup County, Georgia Decade: 1940s On May 23, 1947, Henry “Peg” Gilbert was beaten and shot to death, reportedly by police Chief Buchanan, inside the Harris County Jail in Hamilton, Georgia. Gilbert…
Location(s): Summit, Georgia Decade: 1940s On July 3, 1943, Willie Davis, 26 years old, was shot and killed by Chief of Police James Mitchell Bohannon at a roadhouse on the outskirts of Summit,…
Location(s): Marion County, Mississippi Decade: 1940s On May 2, 1948, Hosea Carter, 32 years old, was shot to death by a group of men in Marion County. William Ratliff Prisk was arrested and…