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1922 American lynching This article is about Joe Winters, the Lynching victim. For the British poet, literary critic and translator of poetry, see Joe Winter.
Lynching in Conroe, Texas
Part of Jim Crow Era
News coverage of the Lynching of Joe Winters
DateMay 20, 1922
LocationConroe, Montgomery County, Texas
ParticipantsA white mob made up of hundreds of people. "A larger crowd than ... the circus"
DeathsJoe Winters

Joe Winters was a 20-year-old African-American man who was lynched in Conroe, Montgomery County, Texas by a mob on May 20, 1922. According to the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary it was the 27th of 61 lynchings during 1922 in the United States.

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.

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.

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. 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.

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Bibliography

Notes

  1. ^ The Crisis, November, 1922, p. 37.
  2. United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary 1926, p. 17.
  3. Conroe Courier, May 26, 1922.
  4. New York Times, May 21, 1922, p. 18.
  5. The Chicago Defender, June 3, 1922.
List of lynchings in the United States in 1922
Number Name Date Place Method of lynching Number of victims
1 Bill McAllister January 8, 1922 Williamsburg, S.C. Shot 1
2 Lincoln Hickson January 8, 1922 Williamsburg, S.C. Shot 1
3 Willie Jenkins January 10, 1922 Eufaula, Alabama Shot 1
4 Jake Brooks January 14, 1922 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Hanged 1
5 Charles Strong January 17, 1922 Mayo, Florida Hanged 1
6 Will Bell January 29, 1922 Pontotoc, Mississippi Shot 1
7 Unidentified January 29, 1922 Pontotoc, Mississippi Shot
8 Drew Conner (White) January 28, 1922 Bolinger, Alabama Burned 1
9 Will Thrasher February 1, 1922 Crystal Springs, Mississippi Hanged 1
10 Harry Harrison February 2, 1922 Malvern, Arkansas Shot 1
11 Manuel Duarte February 2, 1922 Cameron County, Texas Shot 1
12 P. Norman February 11, 1922 Texarkana, Arkansas Shot 1
13 Will Jones February 13, 1922 Ellaville, Georgia Shot 1
14 William Baker March 8, 1922 Aberdeen, Mississippi Hanged 1
15 Alfred Williams March 12, 1922 Harlem, Georgia Hanged 1
16 Brown Culpepper (White) March 13, 1922 Holly Grove, Louisiana Shot 1
17 Jerry Ingram March 17, 1922 Crawford, Mississippi Shot 1
18 Unidentified (white) March 19, 1922 Okay, Oklahoma Drowned 1
19 Alexander Smith March 22, 1922 Gulfport, Mississippi Hanged 1
20 Snap Curry May 6, 1922 Kirvin, Texas Burned 1
21 H. Varney (or Johnnie Cornish) May 6, 1922 Kirvin, Texas Burned 1
22 Mose Jones May 6, 1922 Kirvin, Texas Burned 1
23 Tom Cornish May 8, 1922 Kirvin, Texas Hanged 1
24 Thomas Early May 17, 1922 Conroe, Texas Burned 1
25 Charles Atkins May 18, 1922 Davisboro, Georgia Burned 1
26 Hullen Owens May 19, 1922 Texarkana, Texas Hanged (body burned) 1
27 Joe Winters May 20, 1922 Conroe, Texas Burned 1
28 Mose Bozier May 20, 1922 Alleyton, Texas Hanged 1
29 Gilbert Wilson May 23, 1922 Bryan, Texas Beaten to death 1
30 Jesse Thomas May 26, 1922 Waco, Texas Shot (body burned) 1
31 William Byrd May 28, 1922 Brentwood, Georgia Shot (body burned) 1
32 Robert Collins June 20, 1922 Summit, Mississippi Hanged 1
33 Warren Lewis June 23, 1922 New Dacus, Texas Hanged 1
34 James Harvey July 1, 1922 Lanes Bridge, Georgia Hanged 1
35 Joe Jordan July 1, 1922 Lanes Bridge, Georgia Hanged 1
36 Philip Tankard July 5, 1922 Belhaven, North Carolina Shot 1
37 Joe Pemberton July 7, 1922 Benton, Louisiana Hanged 1
38 Jake "Shake" Davis July 14, 1922 Miller County, Georgia Hanged 1
39 Oscar Mack July 18, 1922 Orange County, Florida Hanged (False report, Oscar Mack survived) 1
40 Will Anderson July 24, 1922 Allentown, Georgia Shot 1
41 John West July 28, 1922 Guernsey, Arkansas Shot 1
42 Gilbert Harris August 1, 1922 Hot Springs, Arkansas Hanged 1
43 John Glover August 1, 1922 Holton, Shot 1
44 Bayner Blackwell August 6, 1922 Swansboro, North Carolina Shot 1
45 John Steelman August 23, 1922 Lambert, Mississippi Burned 1
46 Thomas Rivers August 30, 1922 Bossier Parish, Louisiana Hanged 1
47 F. Watt Daniels (White) August 1922 Mer Rouge, Louisiana Ku-Klux Klan 1
48 Thomas F. Richards (White) August 1922 Mer Rouge, Louisiana Ku-Klux Klan 1
49 Jim Reed Long September 2, 1922 Winder, Georgia Ku-Klux Klan 1
50 O.J. Johnson September 7, 1922 Newton, Texas Hanged 1
51 Jim Johnston September 28, 1922 Sandersville, Georgia Hanged 1
52 Grover C. Everett September 28, 1922 Abilene, Texas Shot 1
53 John Brown October 3, 1922 Montgomery, Alabama Shot 1
54 Ed Hartley (white) October 20, 1922 Camden, Tennessee Shot 1
55 George Hartley (white) October 20, 1922 Camden, Tennessee Shot 1
56 Elias V. Zarate November 11, 1922 Weslaco, Texas Shot 1
57 Cupid Dickson / Cubrit Dixon December 5, 1922 Madison, Florida Shot 1
58 Charles Wright December 8 ,1922 Perry, Florida Burned 1
59 Less Smith December 9, 1922 Morrilton, Arkansas Burned 1
60 George Gay December 11, 1922 Streetman, Texas Hanged 1
61 Arthur Young December 11, 1922 Perry, Florida Hanged 1
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