Darby 1919 lynching attempt

Darby 1919 lynching attempt

Part of Red Summer
William E. Taylor owned the hay shop on 503 Main Street (pictured)
Date	July 23, 1919
Location	Darby, Pennsylvania, United States

The Darby 1919 lynching attempt was the attempted lynching of Samuel Gorman ^[a] in Darby, Pennsylvania on July 23, 1919. Samuel Gorman, a 17-year-old black boy was sent to jail for the alleged murder of William E. Taylor.

Attempted lynching

Samuel Gorman, a 17-year-old African-American worked for hay merchant William E. Taylor who owned the shop on 503 Main Street.^[3] On July 23, 1919, Taylor told him that he didn't have any more work for Gorman and he allegedly hit him over his head, fatally wounding him.^[1] Gorman was quickly apprehended by Chief of Police Clark. Word got out that the suspect had been arrested and a white mob quickly surrounded the jail. The police were called out en masse to prevent the mob from storming the building.^{[4] [5] [2]}

Aftermath

This uprising was one of several incidents of civil unrest that began in the so-called

• Washington race riot of 1919
• Mass racial violence in the United States
• List of incidents of civil unrest in the United States

Bibliography

Notes

References

• OCLC 11539504
  . Retrieved July 21, 2019.
• OCLC 11539504
  . Retrieved July 21, 2019.
• The Greenville News (July 23, 1919). "Race classh threatened to break out early today at Darby, Pennsylvania". The Greenville News. Greenville, North Carolina. Archived from the original on October 27, 2014. Retrieved July 21, 2019. Alt URL
• OCLC 1645522
  . Retrieved July 5, 2019.
• OCLC 9517450
  . Retrieved July 21, 2019.
• Voogd, Jan (2008). Race Riots and Resistance: The Red Summer of 1919. Peter Lang.
  ISBN 9781433100673
  . - Total pages: 234