Lent Shaw

Location: Madison County, Georgia

Age: Unknown

Year: 1936

Lent Shaw was a farmer who was killed by a white mob in Madison County, Georgia, in 1936.

Shaw was accused of attacking two white girls, which he denied, and was taken from jail hours before his trial by a white mob of about 40.

He was shot and lynched.

A mob had previously attempted to lynch Shaw but had been stopped by a judge.

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Read more about Shaw’s death on the Burnham-Nobles Digital Archive

About the Archive

The Burnham-Nobles Digital Archive houses case files and documents for more than 1,000 cases of racial homicides in the Jim Crow South. Co-founded by Melissa Nobles, professor of political science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Margaret Burnham, CRRJ director and professor of law at Northeastern, these uncovered stories highlight how violence affected lives, defined legal rights and shaped politics between 1930 and 1954.

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