Willie Lee Jenkins was lynched in Eufaula, Barbour County, Alabama. According to the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary it was the 3rd of 61 lynchings during 1922 in the United States.

Background

According to his grand daughter Shirley Johnson, her grandfather had a dispute with his boss' wife which cost him his life. Newspapers of the time reported that he "insulted a white woman."

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Lynching

He tried to escape by train but a mob dragged him off, took him into the woods and killed him. His corpse was found in the bottom of a well in Barbour County, from Eufaula on the Batesville road.

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1922 riots

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Deaths by person in Alabama

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February 1922 events

Protest-related deaths

Racially motivated violence against African Americans

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White American riots in the United States

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