Mob Burns Negro 19, Alive, Kansas City Journal Post Missouri, November 29, 1933
Entry/Object ID
AM1987.18.27
Scope and Content
Mob Burns Negro 19, Alive, Kansas City Journal Post Missouri, Wednesday, November 29, 1933 .
A St. Joseph youth is lynched (in St. Joseph) after admitting attack. The sheriff surrenders his prisoner rather than fire on crowd of 10,000 which batters at gates, demanding vengeance. The prisoner Lloyd Warner, confessed of attacking a white girl, They hung the prisoner to a tree and burned him alive by applying a match to his gasoline-saturated body.
There are two news photos of the mob on the front page.
Lexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
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Newspaper
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Serial
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Other Documents
Nomenclature Class
Documentary Objects
Nomenclature Category
Category 08: Communication Objects
LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials
Lynchings
Search Terms
Black History, St. Joseph History, Kansas City Journal-Post, Lynching in St. Joseph, 1933, Lloyd Warner Lynching
