George Marshall Clarke
African American barber who was lynched / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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George Marshall Clark (c. 1838 — 1861) was an African American barber in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. On September 6, 1861, Clark was forcibly taken from the city jail in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, questioned, and lynched by a crowd of fifty to seventy-five Irishmen.[1] Marshall Clark, along with another fellow African American named James P. Shelton, had exchanged insults and blows with two Irishmen who accused them of bothering two white women on the street, and Shelton ended up fatally stabbing Irishman Darby Carney.[1] Clark was eventually hanged from a pile driver later that night.[2]
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