Lynching & racial terror
The burning of Ell Persons
22 May 1917The Wolf River bridge on Macon Road, Memphis, TN
Ell Persons was burned alive at the Wolf River bridge before a crowd of thousands who came out by car with their children. The NAACP's investigation founded its Memphis branch.
- People killed
- 1
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