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Lynchings in Missouri

According to EJI, there are at least 60 reported and known racial terror lynchings in Missouri between 1877-1950. 


EJI's report Lynching in America documents more than 4400 racial terror lynchings in the United States during the period between Reconstruction and World War II (1877-1950).


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Missouri Lynchings by County 1877-1950

Missouri Lynchings By County 1877-1950

Barry County

Ulysses Hayden

06.29.1894


Bates County

Will Jackson

09.16.1893

Boone County

George Bush

09.07.1889


James Scott

04.29.1923

Buchanan County

Lloyd Warner

11.28.1933

Butler County

Nelson Simpson

01.01.1901


Thomas Smith

09.03.1890

Callaway County

Emmett Divers

08.15.1895


Ham Patterson

05.03.1884


James Johnson

06.30.1894


Unknown

10.14.1884

Cape Girardeau County

William Henderson

10.11.1895

Clay County

Henry Darley

05.02.1900


Walter Mitchell

08.07.1925

Clinton County

Henry Bird

09.25.1880

Franklin County

Erastus Brown

07.10.1897

Greene County

Fred Coker

04.14.1906


Horace Duncan

04.14.1906


William Allen

04.15.1906


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Howard County

Dallas Shields

03.17.1914


Frank Embree

07.22.1899


Ollie Thixton

01.20.1891


Porter Cason

08.29.1879


Thomas Hayden

10.29.1899

Iron County

Henry Caldwell

07.30.1882

Jackson County

Levi Harrington

04.03.1882

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Jasper County

Thomas Gilyard

04.15.1903

Lafayette County

Harry Gates

08.12.1902


Will Waters

08.29.1890

Lawrence County

French Godley

08.20.1901


Peter Hampton

08.20.1901


William Godley

08.20.1901

Macon County

Ben Smith

08.03.1889


Henry Williams

06.30.1898

Mississippi County

Robert Coleman

07.03.1910


Roosevelt Grigsby

12.18.1924


Sam Fields

07.03.1910


Tom Witherspoon

05.12.1905

New Madrid County

Louis Wright

02.16.1902


Unknown

05.29.1910

Nodaway County

Raymond Gunn

01.12.1931

Pemiscot County

A.B. Rich

10.11.1911


Benjamin Woods

10.11.1911


William Sherrod

05.22.1927

Pike County

Curtis Young

06.06.1898


Love Rudd

09.08.1915


Roy Hammonds

04.29.1921


Sam Young

06.06.1898


William McDowell

07.01.1883

Platte County

Charles Reese

06.12.1881

Ralls County

Si King

10.03.1885

Randolph County

James Anderson

11.16.1919


John Hughes

02.18.1893


Oliver Wright

03.22.1902

Ray County

Arthur McNeal

03.02.1901

Reynolds County

Frederick Canafax

07.07.1920

Saline County

Mindo Chowagee

04.28.1900

Scott County

Cleo Wright

01.25.1942

St. Louis County

John Buckner

01.17.1894

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Wayne County

Andy Clark

01.21.1903

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