Killing of William Clark in Arkansas in 1946
Incident
William Clark (1891-1946), died in Jennie, Chicot County, Arkansas. Death certificate states the cause of death was tetanus caused by a thorn puncture. A letter from the NAACP to the Department of Justice is to the effect that Clark had been working on the C.H. Holtoff plantation when he disappeared. Clarkâs family was told by sheriff Butcher that Clark had been sent to Gennins county prison farm. When family members went to the prison farm, they were told by some of the prisoners that Clark had died of severe beatings and was buried on the prison farm.
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