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Red Summer

Lynching of Jordan Jameson

Tuesday Nov 11, 1919
Magnolia, Columbia County, Arkansas, U.S.

African-American man, Jordan Jameson was lynched on November 11, 1919, in the town square of Magnolia, Columbia County, Arkansas. A large white mob seized Jameson after he allegedly shot the local sheriff. They tied him to a stake and burned him alive.


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