Lynching Of L. Q. Ivy
L. Q. Ivy was a seventeen-year-old African-American male who was accused of raping a White woman in 1925 in Rocky Ford, Mississippi. He was tortured and burned to death in 1925 by a Lynching in the United States, lynch mob of White people. Accusation and search for attacker In September 1925, Bessie Gaines, a 21-year-old White single mother, was raped and severely beaten in Rocky Ford (now known as Etta, Mississippi). A neighbor drove her to the nearest hospital in New Albany, Mississippi, New Albany, where Union County, Mississippi, Union County sheriff John Roberts interviewed her and her family. The sheriff assembled a Posse comitatus, posse of White men, who used Bloodhound, bloodhounds to search for her attacker. The dogs led them to a group of Black Lumberjack, timber-cutters, including Cleveland Jones, Sherill Kilpatrick, Spencer Ivy, and L. Q. Ivy. According to University of Mississippi Professor and journalist LaReeca Rucker, people interviewed "...said Rush Scott, ...
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Etta, Mississippi
Etta is an unincorporated community in Union County, Mississippi Mississippi () is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States, bordered to the north by Tennessee; to the east by Alabama; to the south by the Gulf of Mexico; to the southwest by Louisiana; and to the northwest by Arkansas. Miss ..., United States. Its ZIP code is 38627. It has a population of 1,120 as of the 2010 Census. Notes Unincorporated communities in Union County, Mississippi Unincorporated communities in Mississippi {{UnionCountyMS-geo-stub ...
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