Students at colleges in the Birmingham area researched lynchings of 30 victims, including facts they found mostly in government documents and press reports, along with some of their impressions of the situations. Here are links to the victims’ stories.

Lewis Houston, Nov. 24, 1883, Linn Park

Unknown, April 22, 1886, Pratt Mines

Monroe Johnson, Sept. 19, 1887, Leeds

Jeff Curry, March 18, 1888, Adger, Blue Creek Mines

Hardy Posey, April 23, 1888, Bessemer, Southern Railway Depot

George Meadows, Jan. 15, 1889, Birmingham, Near Pratt Mines

John Steele, Sept. 27, 1889, Pratt Mines

Tom Redmond, June 17, 1890, Brookside Mines

Henry Smith, Nov. 16, 1890, Hillman Community

Unknown, Nov. 17, 1890, Location Unknown

Robert Mosley, Nov. 4, 1894, Dolomite

James Anderson, Oct. 9, 1896, Toadvine, Near Rocky Creek Bridge

Henry Cyat, Oct. 10, 1896, Toadvine Area

William Wardley, Dec. 7, 1896, Irondale

Jake McKenzie, March 22, 1897, Brookside Mines

James Thomas, July 3, 1897, Blossburg

Unknown, May 11, 1901, Leeds

Charles Bentley, Aug. 2, 1901, Leeds

Jerry Johnson, Sept. 3, 1907, Birmingham

Elijah Nelms, July 29, 1908, Pratt City

William Miller, Aug. 4, 1908, Brighton

Anthony Davis, Aug. 21, 1908, Pratt City

John Thomas, April 25, 1909, Bessemer, Outskirts of Town

John Chandler, Jan. 28, 1912, Bessemer, 3rd Avenue and 19th Street

William Smith, Nov. 1, 1912, Bessemer, 1623 Second Avenue

Wilson Gardner, Aug. 23, 1913, Kilgore

Will McBride, July 12, 1923, Adamsville
Elizabeth Lawrence, July 5, 1933, Birmingham

George Taylor, Aug. 23, 1934, Stockham Park

O.D. Henderson, May 9, 1940, Fairfield