For murder. In 1881
after months of arguments
and threatened fights
between William Allen a
drayman and a white man
he drove to work each
morning Allen challenged
the man to a fight and in
the struggle that
followed killed him.
(Lynching in the New
South
Milly Thompson
Clayton County
Georgia
July 29
1880
For an unknown offense
James Black
Dinwiddie County
Virginia
April 12
1880
For attempted rape
Arthur Jordan
Fauquier County
Virginia
January 19
1880
For miscegenation.
Arthur Jordan ran off
with and married his
white employer's
daughter. The employer
had him arrested in
Washington D.C. and
returned to Fauquier
County to stand trial on
charges of bigamy (Jordan
allegedly already had a
black wife). A