Killing of Ramoud Eloie in Mississippi in 1934
Incident
Ramod Eloia, about 58, a farm hand, was killed in 1934 by W. B. Basket, farm manager, Eloia’s boss, Ben Dildant, sheriff, and two other white men in Washington County, Mississippi. Reasons for the killing vary. According to one newspaper report, Eloia was shot and killed because he sought to move to another farm. In another report, Eloia was shot after an argument with Will Moss, a Black foreman. It was reported that the sheriff refused to allow any Black person to look at the body or to permit the local Black undertaker to bury it, claiming Elloia had “fallen dead.” In Eloia’s death certificate, the cause of death was given as he fell and accidentally hit his head on a rock.
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