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Keith Bowen was an
African-American man who was
lynched near
Aberdeen ,
Monroe County, Mississippi by a white mob on August 14, 1889.
Discovery
Bowen was found in the bedroom of a young white woman in the Lebanon community, about six miles south of Aberdeen and about nine miles from his place of employment, the farm of Charles Keith while other reports say Charles Moore. After being discovered about 3:00 AM, Bowen fled but was hunted down by a posse in a field two to three miles away from the young woman's house, turning him over to a justice of the peace.
Lynching
He was then taken quietly from his captors and hung. The entire neighborhood was alleged to have taken Bowen from the custody of others and hanged him on the public road near where the alleged assault occurred.
Other county lynchings
In 1914, Mayho Miller, an 18-year-old
African-American boy, was lynched by a mob after an alleged assault.
In 1922 an 18-year-old
African-American man,
William Baker was
lynched in
Aberdeen ,
Monroe County, Mississippi by a white mob on March 8. According to the
United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary it was the 14th of 61 lynchings during 1922 in the United States.
See also
Bibliography
Notes
References
"Mississippi shows low lynching record during 1914" . East Mississippi Times . January 15, 1915.
OCLC
16396509 . Retrieved February 17, 2022 .
"Swift Justice" . Fort Worth Daily Gazette . August 15, 1889. pp. 1–8.
ISSN
1946-6080 .
OCLC
13695711 . Retrieved October 29, 2023 .
"Negro Item". Kansas City Gazette . Kansas City, Wyandotte, Kansas. August 15, 1889.
OCLC
12990378 .
"Lynched. Strung up for attempting an assault upon a young woman". Indiana Progress . Indiana, Pa.: R.M. Birkman. 1889.
OCLC
10215219 .
"Lynching".
Montgomery Advertiser . April 22, 2018.
ISSN
2993-9151 .
OCLC
1393208361 .
"Negro Hanged by Citizens" . Okolona Messenger . Okolona, Chickasaw, Mississippi: Abe Steinberger & Sons. March 9, 1922. pp. 1–8.
ISSN
2469-7559 .
OCLC
16103582 . Retrieved February 17, 2022 .
"A Mississippi Lynching" . Pittsburg Dispatch . Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania: Rook, O'Neil & Co. August 14, 1889. pp. 1–8.
ISSN
2157-1295 .
OCLC
2266159 . Retrieved October 29, 2023 .
United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (1926).
"To Prevent and Punish the Crime of Lynching: Hearings Before the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on S. 121, Sixty-Ninth Congress, First Session, on Feb. 16, 1926" .
United States Government Publishing Office . Retrieved January 23, 2022 .
"The Winston Signal". The Winston Signal . Louisville, Miss.: E.M. Hight & W.J. Newsom. 1889.
OCLC
17689629 .
"Women seize Negro later found hanging to tree" .
The Washington Times . Washington, District of Columbia: William Randolph Hearst. March 8, 1922. pp. 1–22.
ISSN
1941-0697 .
OCLC
10630160 . Retrieved February 17, 2022 .
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