Willie Reid (Bainbridge lynching, 1937)

Full name:Willie Reid
Race:Black
Era:1930s
State:Georgia
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Biography

Willie Reid was a Black man described as twenty-two, killed by Bainbridge, Georgia police before a lynch mob reached the jail. Southern Worker reports the police claimed he was attempting to escape, and that the mob subsequently burned his bullet-riddled body in the local ball park. The article places the killing in the month before its July 1937 issue; that relative reference is not converted into an exact death date or birth year. Jail/escape circumstances establish custody, but the original charge, intake day and duration are unprinted. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/southernworker/v5n16-jul-00-1937-sw.pdf#page=13

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Charges: Original charge unprinted; killed by police in jail/escape circumstances and body subsequently burned by a racial mob.
Sentence: Willie Reid was a Black man described as twenty-two, killed by Bainbridge, Georgia police before a lynch mob reached the jail. Southern Worker reports the police claimed he was attempting to escape, and that the mob subsequently burned his bullet-riddled body in the local ball park. The article places the killing in the month before its July 1937 issue; that relative reference is not converted into an exact death date or birth year. Jail/escape circumstances establish custody, but the original charge, intake day and duration are unprinted. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/southernworker/v5n16-jul-00-1937-sw.pdf#page=13

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