Killing of Joe Nathan Roberts in Georgia in 1947
Incident
Joe Nathan Roberts, 23, a lumber company worker and Navy veteran, who was pursuing radio studies at Temple University, was killed in 1947 by a mob in Burke County, Georgia. The mob shot him to death, the NAACP files state, “because he refused to say ‘yes, sir’ and ‘no, sir’ to white residents of Sardin.”
advocacy group resources
- Advocacy Group: 2019-01862-ROBERTS Joe (1206904786)
- Advocacy Group: 2019-01862-ROBERTS Joe (1206904786)
- Advocacy Group: 2021-02555-GREENE Moses (1362383821)
- Advocacy Group: 2017-00771-GILBERT Henry Peg (1052439208)
- Advocacy Group: 2019-01862-ROBERTS Joe (1206904786)
- Advocacy Group: 2020-02528-WILPITZ Howard (1356693916)
- Advocacy Group: 2016-00404-EIGHT GLYNN COUNTY PRISON CAMP PRISONERS (1041052249)
- Organizational records by the NAACP
- Advocacy Group: 2020-02392-BRYANT Danny (1335648421)
- Advocacy Group: 2022-03809-NIXON Issac (1410001277)
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