Albert Williams was an African-American man who was lynched by a mob in Chiefland, Florida, on July 21, 1927.[1]

John R. Steelman, who wrote his PhD dissertation on "mob action in the South", listed Albert Williams, and cited a local newspaper: "Albert Williams, charged with assault on a turpentine operator, was shot to death by a mob. The trouble is said to have arisen over a debt which Williams owed the white man."[2]

References

  1. ↑ "The Law's Too Slow". Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life. January 1928. p. 19.
  2. ↑ Steelman, John R. (1928). A Study of Mob Action in the South (PhD). University of North Carolina. p. 235.

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