Lynching Of Paul Jones

Paul Jones was lynched on November 2, 1919, after being accused of attacking a fifty-year-old white woman in Macon, Georgia.

Lynching of Paul Jones

On Sunday, November 2, 1919, Paul Jones allegedly attacked a white woman about outside of Macon. Paul Jones was chased through town until he was cornered in a rail boxcar, there the woman positively identified him. A white mob of 400 people quickly assembled and over the protests of Sheriff James R. Hicks they seized Jones. His body was riddled with bullets after being lynched,The report of victium being lynched and shot appeared in an African-American newspaper "The Chicago Whip" November 15, 1919 page 1. Interestingly the report of the victium lynched in a railroad yard could help identify a lynching postcard on an unknown man taken in a Georgia railroad yard. See "Without Sanctuary" website photograph collection picture number # 12
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Aftermath

These race riots were one of several incidents of civil unrest that began in the so-called American Red Summer of 1919, which included terrorist attacks on black communities and white oppression in over three dozen cities and counties. In most cases, white mobs attacked African American neighborhoods. In some cases, black community groups resisted the attacks, especially in Chicago and Washington DC. Most deaths occurred in rural areas during events like the Elaine Race Riot in Arkansas, where an estimated 100 to 240 black people and 5 white people were killed. Also in 1919 were the Chicago Race Riot and Washington D.C. race riot which killed 38 and 39 people respectively. Both had many more non-fatal injuries and extensive property damage reaching into the millions of dollars.

See also

*Jenkins County, Georgia, riot of 1919
*Lynching of Berry Washington in Milan, Georgia
* Putnam County, Georgia, arson attack

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