Matthew Williams (laborer)

Matthew Williams was lynched on December 4, 1931 in Salisbury, Maryland.^[1] He was pulled from a bed in Peninsula General Hospital where he was being treated for a self-inflicted gunshot wound, thrown out of a window and hanged.^[1] He had been hospitalized after he shot and killed his white employer and attempted suicide.^[2]

References

1 2 "Matt Williams (b. 1908 - d. 1931)". Biographical Series. Archives of Maryland . Missing or empty |url= (help); |access-date= requires |url= (help)
↑ "An American Tragedy". Maryland Historical Society. Retrieved 17 January 2015.

Lynching in the United States

Victims pre 1900	Julia and Frazier Baker (1898) Joe Coe (1891) Pancho Daniel (1858) Michael Green (1878) John Wesley Heath (1884) Jacob Henson (1896) Sam Hose (1899) Steve Long (1868) Francis McIntosh (1836) Big Nose George Parrott (1881) Henry Plummer (1864) Josefa Segovia (1851) Bill Sketoe (1864) Henry Smith (1893) Joseph and Hyrum Smith (1844) Joseph Standing (1879) Joseph Vermillion (1889) Ellen Watson (1889) Stephen Williams (1894) Eliza Woods (1886) Frank and John McDonald (1881)

Victims 1900-1940	George Armwood (1933) Roy Belton (1920) Will Brown (1919) William Burns (1907) Cordie Cheek (1933) Anthony Crawford (1916) Wesley Everest (1919) Leo Frank (1915) Raymond Gunn (1931) Ed Johnson (1906) King Johnson (1911) Olli Kinkkonen (1918) Frank Little (1917) Jim Miller (1909) Laura and L.D. Nelson (1911) Ell Persons (1917) Robert Prager (1918) Will Porter (or Potter) (1911) Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith (1930) Mary Turner (1918) Zachariah Walker (1911) Jesse Washington (1916) Matthew Williams (1931)

Victims after 1940	Michael Donald (1981) Mack Charles Parker (1959) Lamar Smith (1955) Emmett Till (1955)

Incidents	Duluth lynchings (1920) East St. Louis Riot (1917) Reno Brothers Gang (Indiana, 1868) Chinese massacre of 1871 Omaha Race Riot of 1919 Rosewood massacre (1923) Tulsa race riot (1921)

General	Lynching Lynching in the United States Indiana White Caps Jim Crow laws Ku Klux Klan Nadir of American race relations

Anti-lynching movement	Anti-lynching movement American Crusade Against Lynching Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill N.A.A.C.P. Ida B. Wells "Strange Fruit" Flag Salute

Other	James Allen (collector) The Ox-Bow Incident The United States of Lyncherdom (Twain) Vendetta (1999 film)

Categories	Lynching in the United States Lynching deaths in the United States American anti-lynching activists

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