Lynching of Joe Winters
Part of Jim Crow Era | |
Date | May 20, 1922 |
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Location | Conroe, Montgomery County, Texas |
Participants | A white mob made up of hundreds of people. "A larger crowd than ... the circus"[1] |
Deaths | Joe Winters |
Joe Winters was a 20-year-old
Background
A 14-year-old girl was allegedly assaulted on Friday, 4:00 PM, May 19, 1920, near Leonidas, Texas. Rudolph Manning was initially rounded up and smuggled to Houston, Texas by his employer W.H. Biggers, M.A. Anderson, former sheriff of Montgomery County and J.W. Baker but present day Montgomery Sheriff Hicks brought him back to Conroe and then to Leonidas where the victim said it wasn't him. [3]
A large crowd gathered in Conroe and rumours swirled that a new suspect, Joe Winters, had taken a horse near Waukegan, Texas. He was spotted 2 miles (3.2 km) from Waukegan on his way to Youens, Texas. Police arrested him at 2:00 PM on Saturday, May 20, 1922, and he was taken to Leonidas where the victim was allegedly able to identify him.[4]
Lynching
Since the alleged attack, local newspapers had been calling for a crowd to gather and by the time of the positive identification thousands of people had gathered in Conroe, Texas.[1] When Montgomery Sheriff Hicks returned to Conroe, he was quickly overpowered and the mob seized Winters and chained him to an iron post in courthouse square, where he had oil boxes stacked around him. The pile was ignited and he was burned alive proclaiming his innocence. [5] The story of the racial background of Conroe, Texas, is partially told in The Slave Psychology (2024) by Tarius Montayj Jones and DazJohnique And'e Jones. 6 ref></ref>
See also
Bibliography
Notes
- "Farmers Hasten From South to Escape Murders". OCLC 18766972.
- "Joe Winters Burned Here". Conroe Courier. Conroe Courier Pub. Co. May 19, 1922. OCLC 14148348.
- "The Looking Glass". ISSN 1559-1573. Retrieved February 27, 2022.
- "Two Negroes Lynched for Attacks on Girls". OCLC 1645522. Retrieved July 15, 2020.
- Robertson, Campbell (April 25, 2018). "A Lynching Memorial Is Opening. The Country Has Never Seen Anything Like It". The New York Times. Retrieved January 29, 2022.
- United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (1926). "To Prevent and Punish the Crime of Lynching: Hearings Before the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on S. 121, Sixty-Ninth Congress, First Session, on Feb. 16, 1926". United States Government Publishing Office. Retrieved January 23, 2022.
- <Tarius Montayj Jones, DazJohnique And'e Jones. The Slave Psychology: Part 1. Jones House Publishing, 2024.