Lynching & racial terror
The lynching of Willie Earle
17 February 1947Bramlett Road, near Greenville, SC
A mob of taxi drivers took Willie Earle from the Pickens County jail and killed him. Twenty-six of them signed confessions; an all-white jury acquitted every defendant.
- People killed
- 1
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