Lynching of David Jones
African American man who was lynched in the U.S. / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
David Jones was an African-American man who was lynched in Nashville, Tennessee on March 25, 1872 after being arrested as a suspect in a killing. He was mortally wounded while in jail, shot twice in the back while resisting white mob members who came to take him out; the whites pulled him into the Public Square and hanged him from a post outside the police station, with a crowd of an estimated 2,000 in attendance. The sheriff interrupted the hanging and took Jones down. Taken back to the jail, Jones died of his injuries on April 9, 1872.
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Lynching of David Jones | |
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Location | Public Square, Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. |
Date | March 25, 1872; 152 years ago (1872-03-25) 9pm |
Attack type | Lynching |
Victims | David Jones |
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