Tag: October 1938

Mobs’ Deadly Justice: 19-Year-Old Boy Hanged in Louisiana Lynching
Ruston, Louisiana – In a chilling display of extrajudicial violence, a mob of hundreds descended upon R.C. Williams, a 19-year-old black youth, and hanged him from a tree on October 13, 1938. The brutal act was carried out in the aftermath of a reported murder, in which Williams was accused of killing R.M. Blair, a…
