Date | September 1877 |
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Location | Winchester, Illinois, United States |
Participants | Residents of Scott County, Illinois |
Deaths | 1 |
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A mob of white Winchester, Illinois, residents lynched Andrew Richards, a black man, on September 11, 1877. He was forcibly taken from the Winchester, Illinois, jail by a mob of several hundred people. He was accused of the rape of a white woman, Mrs. John Pruitt, in a nearby orchard.