Killing of Felix Hall in Georgia in 1941
Incident
Pvt. Felix Hall, 19, was found dead in 1941 hanging from a tree near the Fort Benning military base in Chattahoochee County, Georgia. Hall was marked absent without leave four weeks before his body was found; he was later listed as a deserter. Although an investigation by military authorities claimed suicide as a possibility of Hall’s death, an F.B.I report supported a finding that Hall had tried to survive the hanging. An essay on this case, researched and authored by a CRRJ student, is available on request.
advocacy group resources
- Advocacy Group: 2016-00487-SMITH Wilmer (1042641623)
- Organizational records by the NAACP
- Advocacy Group: 2022-03794-HALL Felix (1409842232)
- Advocacy Group: 2022-03794-HALL Felix (1409842232)
- Advocacy Group: 2022-03794-HALL Felix (1409842232)
- Advocacy Group: 2022-03794-HALL Felix (1409842232)
- Advocacy Group: 2021-03238-TURMAN Ned (1401821641)
- Advocacy Group: 2022-03794-HALL Felix (1409842232)
- Advocacy Group: 2020-02526-WHITE Bob (1356690271)
- Press release by the NAACP
- Advocacy Group: 2016-00421-THOMAS/MARSHALL T.J./Richard (1041312870)
- Advocacy Group: 2020-02528-WILPITZ Howard (1356693916)
- Advocacy Group: 2022-03794-HALL Felix (1409842232)
- Advocacy Group: 2021-03238-TURMAN Ned (1401821641)
- Advocacy Group: 2022-03794-HALL Felix (1409842232)
- Organizational records by the NAACP
- News article from Crisis about lynchings of A.C. Williams and Felix Hall : June 1941
- News article from the Washington Post about the death of Felix Hall : September 2, 2016
- News article from the Crisis Magazine regarding the lynching of Felix Hall : September 1941
- News article from the San Antonio Register regarding the lynching of Felix Hall : April 18, 1961
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