William Baker was an 18-year-old

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man who was

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in Monroe County, Mississippi by a white mob on March 8, 1922. According to the

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it was the 14th of 61 lynchings during 1922 in the United States.

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Between Okolona and Aberdeen, Mississippi, 18-year-old farmhand William Baker was putting a buggy into its shed when the six-year-old daughter of Constable Sidney Johnson got into it. Baker allegedly then took the girl to a shed where she started screaming. Her mother came running and grabbed hold of him. A white mob quickly gathered and hanged Baker. His body was discovered by Sheriff Lewis hanging from a Chinaberry tree. ''The Chicago Whip'' writes the lynching took place from Aberdeen, Mississippi.

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