Killing of Willie Earle in South Carolina in 1947
Incident
Willie Earle, 24, a laborer, was killed in 1947 by a mob led by R. Carlos Herd, a taxi cab dispatcher, in Greenville County, South Carolina. The mob kidnapped Earle from jail, then beat and shot him. Earle was a suspect in an earlier stabbing and robbing of taxi driver T. W. Brown. Thirty-one people were arrested. A jury acquitted the defendants.
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advocacy group resources
- NAACP: 2021-03512-EARLE Willie (1406062487)
- NAACP: 2021-03512-EARLE Willie (1406062487)
- NAACP: 2021-03512-EARLE Willie (1406062487)
- NAACP: 2021-03512-EARLE Willie (1406062487)
- NAACP: 2021-03512-EARLE Willie (1406062487)
- NAACP: 2021-03512-EARLE Willie (1406062487)
- NAACP: 2021-03512-EARLE Willie (1406062487)
- NAACP: 2021-03512-EARLE Willie (1406062487)
- NAACP: 2021-03512-EARLE Willie (1406062487)
- Advocacy Group: 2016-00404-EIGHT GLYNN COUNTY PRISON CAMP PRISONERS (1041052249)
- Advocacy Group: 2021-03512-EARLE Willie (1406062487)
- NAACP: 2021-03512-EARLE Willie (1406062487)
- Advocacy Group: 2021-02555-GREENE Moses (1362383821)
- NAACP: 2021-03512-EARLE Willie (1406062487)
- NAACP: 2021-03512-EARLE Willie (1406062487)
- NAACP: 2021-03512-EARLE Willie (1406062487)
- NAACP: 2021-03512-EARLE Willie (1406062487)
- NAACP: 2021-03512-EARLE Willie (1406062487)
- NAACP: 2021-03512-EARLE Willie (1406062487)
- NAACP: 2021-03512-EARLE Willie (1406062487)
- NAACP: 2021-03512-EARLE Willie (1406062487)
- Government Incident Records: 2021-03512-EARLE Willie (1406062487)
- Government Incident Records: 2021-03512-EARLE Willie (1406062487)
- Government Incident Records: 2021-03512-EARLE Willie (1406062487)
- Government Incident Records: 2021-03512-EARLE Willie (1406062487)
- Government Incident Records: 2021-03277-PITTMAN Willie (1402473661)
- Government Incident Records: 2021-03512-EARLE Willie (1406062487)
- Government Incident Records: 2021-03512-EARLE Willie (1406062487)
- Government Incident Records: 2021-03512-EARLE Willie (1406062487)
- Government Incident Records: 2021-03512-EARLE Willie (1406062487)
- Journalism: 2021-03512-EARLE Willie (1406062487)
- Journalism: 2021-03512-EARLE Willie (1406062487)
- Journalism: 2021-03512-EARLE Willie (1406062487)
- News article from the Atlanta Constitution about the trial for the murder of Willie Earle : May 15, 1947
- Journalism: 2021-03512-EARLE Willie (1406062487)
- Journalism: 2021-03512-EARLE Willie (1406062487)
- Journalism: 2021-03512-EARLE Willie (1406062487)
- News article from the New York Times regarding the lynching of Willie Earle : May 1947
- Journalism: 2021-03512-EARLE Willie (1406062487)
- Journalism: 2021-03512-EARLE Willie (1406062487)
- Journalism: 2021-03512-EARLE Willie (1406062487)
- Journalism: 2021-03512-EARLE Willie (1406062487)
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