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George Robinson (Raymond, Mississippi)

Full name:George Robinson
Era:1930s
State:Mississippi
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Biography

George Robinson was a Black man held for purported safekeeping in the county jail at Raymond, Mississippi. The Daily Worker of September 10, 1930 reports that a deputy sheriff killed him there on the stated pretext of preventing an escape. The report places his death among recent racial killings but does not give the exact arrest or death day, the underlying charge or a judicial disposition. He is distinct from the later Oakland Black Panther of the same name.

Case

Charges: Held for safekeeping; underlying charge unestablished.
Sentence: Killed by a deputy sheriff while held in Raymond county jail, reported September 10, 1930.