Joseph Vermilion was a 27-year-old African-American man lynched December 3, 1889 for the crime of arson in Upper Marlboro, Maryland.[1]
Joe Vermillion had been jailed in Upper Marlboro for a series of arsons involving barns filled with tobacco and houses in Prince George's County.[2] At 2:30am, a band of masked men broke into the jail, overpowered the jailkeeper and left with Vermillion.[2]
Vermillion was dragged to the "iron bridge just between the town and the railroad depot"[3] and hanged.[2] His body was left hanging from the bridge for the coroner's investigation.[2]
That same bridge was used 5 years later in another lynching of Stephen Williams by a similar band of masked men.[3]
External links
References
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
|
|
Before 1900 |
|
1900–1940 |
|
After 1940 |
|
|
|
Multiple victims
|
- Death of Joseph Smith (Joseph Smith, Hyrum Smith) (1844)
- Marais des Cygnes, KS, massacre (1858)
- Great Hanging at Gainesville, TX (1862)
- New York City draft riots (1863)
- Detroit race riot (1863)
- ? Lachenais and four others (1863)
- Fort Pillow, TN, massacre (1864)
- Plummer Gang (1864)
- Memphis massacre (1866)
- Gallatin County, KY, race riot (1866)
- New Orleans massacre of 1866
- Reno Brothers Gang (1868)
- Camilla, GA, massacre (1868)
- Steve Long and two half-brothers (1868)
- Pulaski, TN, riot (1868)
- Samuel Bierfield and Lawrence Bowman (1868)
- Opelousas, LA, massacre (1868)
- Bear River City riot (1868)
- Chinese massacre of 1871
- Meridian, MS, race riot (1871)
- Colfax, LA, massacre (1873)
- Election riot of 1874 (AL)
- Juan, Antonio, and Marcelo Moya (1874)
- Benjamin and Mollie French (1876)
- Ellenton, SC, riot (1876)
- Hamburg, SC, massacre (1876)
- Thibodeax, LA, massacre (1878)
- Nevlin Porter and Johnson Spencer (1879)
- New Orleans 1891 lynchings (1891)
- Ruggles Brothers (CA) (1892)
- Thomas Moss, Henry Stewart, Calvin McDowell (TN) (1892)
- Porter and Spencer (MS) (1897)
- Phoenix, SC, election riot (1898)
- Wilmington, NC, insurrection (1898)
- Julia and Frazier Baker (1898)
- Pana, IL, riot (1899)
- Watkinsville lynching (1905)
- Atlanta race riot (1906)
- Kemper County, MS (1906)
- Walker family (1908)
- Springfield race riot of 1908
- Slocum, TX, massacre (1910)
- Laura and L.D. Nelson (1911)
- Harris County, GA, lynchings (1912)
- Forsyth County, GA (1912)
- Newberry, FL, lynchings (1916)
- East St. Louis, IL, riots (1917)
- Lynching rampage in Brooks County, GA (1918)
- Jenkins County, GA, riot (1919)
- Longview, TX, race riot (1919)
- Elaine, AR, race riot (1919)
- Omaha race riot of 1919
- Knoxville riot of 1919
- Red Summer (1919)
- Duluth, MN, lynchings (1920)
- Ocoee, FL, massacre (1920)
- Tulsa race massacre (1921)
- Perry, FL, race riot (1922)
- Rosewood, FL, massacre (1923)
- Jim and Mark Fox (1927)
- Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith (1930)
- Tate County, MS (1932)
- Thomas Harold Thurmond and John M. Holmes (1933)
- Roosevelt Townes and Robert McDaniels (1937)
- Beaumont, TX, Race Riot (1943)
- O'Day Short, wife, and two children (1945)
- Moore's Ford, GA, lynchings (1946)
- Harry and Harriette Moore (1952)
- Anniston, AL (1961)
- Freedom Summer Murders (James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner) (1964)
- Henry Hezekiah Dee and Charles Eddie Moore (1964)
|
|
|