| Part of Jim Crow Era | |
 News coverage of the Lynching of Joe Winters | |
| Date | May 20, 1922 |
|---|---|
| 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]