O’Dee Henderson
O’Dee Henderson, 25, was a steel worker who was beaten, shot and killed by police officers Nelson Thomas, W. C. Glenn and Sergeant W. G. Cook, aided by civilian M. M. Hagood, in a police station in Fairfield, Jefferson County, AL.
Reverend Captain Leonard Butler
Rev. Capt. Leonard Butler, 53, was a miner and a pastor who was killed in 1948 by two police deputies employed by the Tennessee Coal, Iron, and Railroad Company in Jefferson County, Alabama.
Malcolm Wright
Malcolm Wright (1900 – 1949), a farmer, was killed by James Moore, Eunice Gore, and James “Red” Kellum in Chickasaw County, Mississippi.
Pvt. Booker T. Spicely
Pvt. Booker T. Spicely, a World War II veteran, was killed by bus driver Herman Lee Council in Durham County, North Carolina in 1944, after a confrontation regarding Spicely’s refusal to give up his seat.
Lent Shaw
Lent Shaw (1894 – 1936), a farmer, was killed by a mob in Madison County, Georgia.
Prinest McCann
Prinest McCann (1922 – 1945), a truck driver and WWII veteran, was killed by police officer Melvin Porter in Mobile County, Alabama.
Tom Jones Jr. killed in 1945, Mississippi
Tom Jones Jr., a longshoreman, was killed by David McDonald, a night watchman, in Wilkinson County, Mississippi in 1945.
Ellis Hutson Sr.
Ellis Hutson, Sr., 50, was a truck driver who was killed by Constable Travis Helpenstill in Nacogdoches, Texas in 1948.
Henry “Peg” Gilbert
Henry “Peg” Gilbert, 42, a prosperous farmer and church deacon, was killed in 1947 by Police Chief W. H. Buchanan in the Harris County jail in Harris County, Georgia.
Pvt. Willie Lee Davis
Pvt. Willie Lee Davis (1917 – 1943) was killed by Police Chief James Mitchell Bohannon while on leave in Emanuel County, Georgia.
Willie B. Carlisle
Willie B. Carlisle, 18, was a service station employee who was killed in 1950 by two police officers, Doyle Mitcham and James R. Clark, in Lafayette, Alabama.
Hilliard Brooks
Hilliard Brooks, 22, a WWII veteran, was killed in 1950 by police officer M. E. Mills in Montgomery, Alabama.
Timothy Hood
Timothy Hood, 23, a veteran, was killed in 1946 by Police Chief G. B. Fant in Bessemer, Jefferson County Alabama.
Jesse Thornton
Jesse Thornton, 26, an overseer on a chicken farm, was killed in 1940 by a group of men led by police officers Doris Rhodes and Noland Ellis in Crenshaw County, Alabama.
Bennie Thompson
Bennie Thompson, 38, was killed in 1933 by Burley Leppard and three others in Ninety Six, Greenwood County, South Carolina.