Killing of Edward Swiney in Mississippi in 1940
Incident
Edward Swiney, a/k/a Edward Cook (1918-1940), a laborer, was killed by Jessie Lay, Clarence Flanagan, and Rubin Well in Tutwiler, Tallahatchie County, Mississippi. Swiney and another Black man were accused of stealing from a local store owned by Jessie Lay. Swiney’s mother Nina Langston told newspapers that her son had been shot three times in the head and once in the arm. Trial jury acquitted.
advocacy group resources
- Advocacy Group: 2019-01831-SWINEY Edward (1201431046)
- Advocacy Group: 2019-01831-SWINEY Edward (1201431046)
- Advocacy Group: 2019-01831-SWINEY Edward (1201431046)
- Advocacy Group: 2019-01831-SWINEY Edward (1201431046)
- Advocacy Group: 2021-03417-WILLIAMS Elbert (1404466142)
- Advocacy Group: 2019-01831-SWINEY Edward (1201431046)
- Advocacy Group: 2020-02318-KEYS Willie (1329727996)
- Advocacy Group: 2019-01831-SWINEY Edward (1201431046)
- Advocacy Group: 2019-01831-SWINEY Edward (1201431046)
- Advocacy Group: 2019-01831-SWINEY Edward (1201431046)
- Advocacy Group: 2019-01831-SWINEY Edward (1201431046)
- Advocacy Group: 2021-03417-WILLIAMS Elbert (1404466142)
- Advocacy Group: 2019-01831-SWINEY Edward (1201431046)
- Correspondence by the NAACP
- Advocacy Group: 2022-03714-JOHNSON Elijah (1408544102)
- Advocacy Group: 2019-01831-SWINEY Edward (1201431046)
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