Georgia Lynchings

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 ...

Accumulation of Crimes in Oconee County, Georgia Results in a Carnival of Death. Following is an account of the carousal from the 30 June 1905 Athens Weekly Banner (Georgia): " Prisoners Shot Down By An Insatiate Mob Aycock and Seven Negroes Meet Death Furious Mob Swept Down on Watkinsville Yesterday Morning at Two O'Clock, Cleared Jail of All Except One Negro, and Shot Prisoners to Death. Aycock Protested His Innocence to the Last. Mob Came Quietly, Overpowered Jailor and Town Marshal and Wreaked Its Awful Vengeance. Yesterday morning at two o'clock the most horrible lynching in the history of Georgia took place at Watkinsville, Oconee county. Seven negroes and one white man were taken from the jail and tied by their necks to fence posts near the jail and their bodies riddled with shot. One negro who was taken out was shot several times and left for dead by the mob, but he will recover. Only one more inmate of the jail was left and he would have been taken out also if th...