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Date | August 14, 1889 |
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Location | Aberdeen, Monroe County, Mississippi |
Deaths | Keith Bowen |
Keith Bowen was an African-American man who was lynched near Aberdeen, Monroe County, Mississippi by a white mob on August 14, 1889.
Bowen was found in the bedroom of a young white woman in the Lebanon community, about six miles south of Aberdeen and about nine miles from his place of employment, the farm of Charles Keith[1] while other reports say Charles Moore.[2] [3] After being discovered about 3:00 AM, Bowen fled[4] but was hunted down by a posse in a field two to three miles away from the young woman's house, turning him over to a justice of the peace.
He was then taken quietly from his captors and hung.[5] The entire neighborhood was alleged to have taken Bowen from the custody of others and hanged him on the public road near where the alleged assault occurred.[4][6]
In 1914, Mayho Miller, an 18-year-old African-American boy, was lynched by a mob after an alleged assault.[7]
In 1922 an 18-year-old African-American man, William Baker was lynched in Aberdeen, Monroe County, Mississippi by a white mob on March 8. According to the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary it was the 14th of 61 lynchings during 1922 in the United States. [8]
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