Lynching of a Black man in Arkansas, 1908
Earnest Williams was an African-American man who was
lynched by a mob in
Parkdale ,
Ashley County, Arkansas , in 1908.
John R. Steelman , who wrote his PhD dissertation on "mob action in the South", listed Williams as one of the cases, and said "Earnest Williams was thrust into eternity by a band of men who were 'outraged' at him for 'using offensive language'."
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