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).
Read EJI's report below.
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
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
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
Wayne County
Andy Clark
01.21.1903
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