Lynching of Charles Strong

Charles Strong was lynched in Mayo, Florida. According to the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary it was the 5th of 61 lynchings during 1922 in the United States.^[1]

Lynching of Charles Strong in Mayo, Florida

Part of Jim Crow Era
News coverage of the Lynching of Charles Strong
Date	January 17, 1922
Location	Mayo, Lafayette County, Florida
Participants	A white mob of 1,000 people lynched in Mayo, Florida
Deaths	1

Background

Mailman W.R. Taylor was the son of a well-known naval stores operator in Mayo, Florida.^[2] On Saturday, January 14, 1922, he entered the home of Charles Strong to investigate a dispute. In this home, around midnight, he was shot and killed by a shotgun.^[3] Charles Strong, accused of firing the gun, claimed that another man held the shotgun but he fled anyway and was on the run for three days before he was arrested by police.^[3]

Lynching

The police were taking Strong to jail when they were met by a white mob of 1,000 people. They seized Strong, hanged him from a tree, and riddled his hanging corpse with bullets.^[2]