Killing of Phillip Baker in Georgia in 1936
Incident
Phillip Baker, 32, was killed in 1936 by a mob in Chattahoochee County, Georgia. While being transferred from one jail to another one, Baker, who was accused of attacking two white women and beating a Black woman, was kidnapped, hanged, and shot by a mob of between thirty and forty masked men. A grand jury investigated the matter. The official record states that Baker came to his death at the hands of “parties unknown.”
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- Advocacy Group: 2016-00420-BAKER Philip (1041312794)
- Advocacy Group: 2016-00420-BAKER Philip (1041312794)
- Scholarly work by the NAACP
- Advocacy Group: 2016-00420-BAKER Philip (1041312794)
- Organizational records by the NAACP
- Organizational records by the NAACP
- Newspaper articles by the International Juridical Association
- Advocacy Group: 2019-01812-WHITE John (1199859931)
- Advocacy Group: 2018-01620-SPINNER JOHNSON Joe (1163898376)
- Advocacy Group: 2016-00420-BAKER Philip (1041312794)
- Advocacy Group: 2021-03123-KEE Willie (1399216576)
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- Advocacy Group: 2021-02902-BROWN Mack (1385420431)
- Advocacy Group: 2021-02902-BROWN Mack (1385420431)
- Organizational records by the NAACP
- Advocacy Group: 2019-01812-WHITE John (1199859931)
- Advocacy Group: 2016-00420-BAKER Philip (1041312794)
- Administrative file on anti-lynching bills from the NAACP
- Advocacy Group: 2016-00420-BAKER Philip (1041312794)
- Advocacy Group: 2016-00420-BAKER Philip (1041312794)
- Advocacy Group: 2016-00420-BAKER Philip (1041312794)
- Organizational records by the NAACP
- Advocacy Group: 2016-00420-BAKER Philip (1041312794)
- News article from the Los Angeles Sentinel regarding the lynching of Phillip Baker : March 20, 1936
- Journalism: 2016-00420-BAKER Philip (1041312794)
- News article from the Chicago Daily Tribune about the killing of Phillip (Will) Baker : March 18, 1936
- Journalism: 2016-00420-BAKER Philip (1041312794)
- News article from the Chicago Defender regarding the lynching of Phillip Baker : January 9, 1937
- Journalism: 2016-00420-BAKER Philip (1041312794)
- Journalism: 2016-00420-BAKER Philip (1041312794)
- Journalism: 2016-00420-BAKER Philip (1041312794)
- Journalism: 2016-00420-BAKER Philip (1041312794)
- News article from Pittsburgh Courier regarding police handing over Philip Baker to lyncing mob : March 21, 1936
- Journalism: 2016-00420-BAKER Philip (1041312794)
- News article from the Catholic Worker regarding the lynching of Phillip Baker : April 1936
- News article from the Columbus Enquirer regarding the lynching of Phillip Baker : March 15, 1936
- News article from the Indianapolis Recorder regarding the lynching of Phillip Baker : March 21, 1936
- News article from the Ashland Daily Independent regarding the lynching of Phillip Baker : March 15, 1936
- Journalism: 2016-00420-BAKER Philip (1041312794)
- News article from the Columbus Enquirer regarding the lynching of Phillip Baker : March 13, 1936
- News article from the Chicago Daily Tribune regarding the lynching of Phillip Baker : March 18, 1936
- News article from the Chicago Daily Tribune regarding the lynching of Phillip Baker : March 16, 1936
- Journalism: 2016-00420-BAKER Philip (1041312794)
- News article from the Daily Boston Globe regarding the lynching of Phillip Baker : March 15, 1936
- News article from the Chicago Defender regarding the lynching of Phillip Baker : March 28, 1936
- Journalism: 2016-00420-BAKER Philip (1041312794)
- Journalism: 2016-00420-BAKER Philip (1041312794)
- News article from the Atlanta Daily World regarding the lynching of Phillip Baker : August 9, 1946
- Journalism: 2016-00420-BAKER Philip (1041312794)
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