Biography
Rev. E. R. Franklin was a Black minister jailed in Mississippi after distributing The Crisis. Frederick G. Detweiler’s 1922 study reproduces a June 1920 account describing an attack by a mob at a train station, his attempt to obtain official protection, refusal of bail offered by friends, and a chain-gang sentence. Actual jailing is explicitly reported; exact custody dates, the imposed term and the complete duration remain unknown.
Rev. E. R. Franklin was a Black minister jailed in Mississippi after distributing The Crisis. Frederick G. Detweiler’s 1922 study reproduces a June 1920 account describing an attack by a mob at a train station, his attempt to obtain official protection, refusal of bail offered by friends, and a chain-gang sentence. Actual jailing is explicitly reported; exact custody dates, the imposed term and the complete duration remain unknown.
Historical record; unknown custody endpoints remain blank.