Killing of Ishmel Simmons in North Carolina in 1951
Incident
Ishmel Simmons (1910-1951), a farm worker, was killed by Newton Hanes in Brice Creek, Craven County, North Carolina. According to the Civil Rights Congress, Simmons was a tenant farmer on Hanes’ land, and when he went to collect $30 that was owed him, Hanes fatally shot him. Hanes was tried for second-degree murder, and claimed self-defense. Trial jury acquitted. Hanes paid Simmons’ wife Martha Simmons $5,100 to, according to Jet magazine, “forestall a possible civil suit.”
advocacy group resources
- Journalism: 2021-03214-SIMMONS Ishmel (1401819121)
- News article from the Baltimore Afro-American about the widow of Ishmael Simmons dropping her civil suit against the man accused of murdering her husband : April 26, 1952
- Journalism: 2021-03214-SIMMONS Ishmel (1401819121)
- News article from the Carolina Times about release on bond of man charged with murder for the death of Ishmael Simmons : January 5, 1952
- Journalism: 2021-03214-SIMMONS Ishmel (1401819121)
- News article from the Baltimore Afro-American about the coroner's jury and court hearing held in regard to the death of Ishmel Simmons : November 24, 1951
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