According to MonroeWorkToday , the lynching of Walter Allen is referenced in A Festival of Violence: An Analysis of Southern Lynchings, 1882-1930 and Fitzhugh Brundage's Lynching in the New South: Georgia and Virginia, 1880-1930 . Mr. Fitzhugh, specifically, notes: Precisely why alleged rapes were such a conspicuous cause of lynchings in the Upper Piedmont [a portion of the northern half of the state of Georgia] is hard to learn. The location of many of the lynchings for sexual offenses, however, is suggestive. Nearly half occurred either along the fringes or within the environs of Atlanta and Rome... The lynchings on the periphery of Atlanta and Rome probably were testimony to the fears of whites that the day-to-day controls on black life in the countryside were losing their effectiveness and the conviction that symbolic violence was needed to restore black deference and fear. Macon Telegraph (Georgia) Wednesday, 2 April 1902 -- pg. 1 [via GenealogyBank ] PEOPLE OF ROME, GA.,
Before he even had a trial. According to MonroeWorkToday , the lynching of Thomas "Tom" Allen is referenced in A Festival of Violence: An Analysis of Southern Lynchings, 1882-1930 and Fitzhugh Brundage's Lynching in the New South: Georgia and Virginia, 1880-1930 . Here is a timeline of events, based on Georgia newspaper articles, from arrest to conclusion, of the lynching of Tom Allen in Walton County, Georgia. Beginning with an overview of the alleged assault from the 14 April 1911 edition of the Macon Telegraph . FIENDISH ASSAULT IN WALTON COUNTY Unconscious Woman Is Found Half Buried in Mud of Pasture. POSSES HUNTING NEGRO Beleef [sic] Is That He Has Already Been Arrested and Spirited Away. MONROE, Ga., April 13. – Posses tonight are scouring Walton County for the negro who committed a criminal assault on Mrs. Leila McKnight at her home ten miles from Monroe late yesterday afternoon. Two suspicious characters were arrested today, but it is believed the guilty negro