Lynching of Will Bell

On Saturday, January 28, 1922, a young white woman was allegedly attacked by a Black man.[2]

Local police arrested 20-year-old Will Bell and Sheriff Blalock feared that he would be lynched before his trial.[3] He made plans to secretly move Will Bell to the capital of Mississippi, Jackson. Early Sunday morning of January 29, 1922 the Sheriff and his deputies made a desperate drive to get Bell to the departing night train but their car was stopped by a mob who used another vehicle to stop the police car. A man jumped out, pulled out a revolver and emptied it into Bell, after he dropped dead other members of the mob fired more shots into him. [4]

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References

• The New York Times (January 30, 1922). "Negro Prisoner Is Seized and Killed by Bullets". The New York Times. New York, NY. ISSN 1553-8095. OCLC 1645522. Retrieved July 5, 2019.
• Robertson, Campbell (April 25, 2018). "A Lynching Memorial Is Opening. The Country Has Never Seen Anything Like It". The New York Times. Retrieved January 29, 2022.
• "Accused Black Shot To Death". Times-Journal. Selma, Alabama: Frazier Titus Raiford. January 30, 1922. OCLC 1080316481.
• "Mississippi Mob Lynches Negro". The Union Daily Times. Union, South Carolina. January 30, 1922. pp. 1–4. ISSN 2471-0563. OCLC 13088988. Retrieved January 29, 2022.
• United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (1926). "To Prevent and Punish the Crime of Lynching: Hearings Before the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on S. 121, Sixty-Ninth Congress, First Session, on Feb. 16, 1926". United States Government Publishing Office. Retrieved January 23, 2022.