Part of Jim Crow Era | |
Date | May 20, 1922 |
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Location | Conroe, Montgomery County, Texas |
Participants | A white mob made up of hundreds of people. "A larger crowd than ... the circus"[1] |
Deaths | Joe Winters |
Joe Winters was a 20-year-old African-American man who was lynched in Conroe, Montgomery County, Texas by a mob on May 20, 1922. According to the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary it was the 27th of 61 lynchings during 1922 in the United States. [2]