Dan Anderson was an African-American man who was murdered in Macon, Mississippi, on May 20, 1927 at the age of 32.[1][2] Anderson's father had also been lynched.[3] Anderson was accused of killing T. C. Edwards, a white farmer from Cliftonville, Mississippi. He was arrested in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. A mob of 300 to 500 men followed him and fired more than 200 bullets into his body.

References

  1. ↑ "The Law's Too Slow". Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life. January 1928. p. 19.
  2. ↑ "The Jim Crow Era: A Solemn Roll Call Of Those Brutally Murdered". PoliticsNY. February 24, 2020. Retrieved April 20, 2021.
  3. ↑ "2d In Family Lynched by Mob". Courier-Journal. May 20, 1927. Retrieved April 21, 2021.

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