Killing of Howard Wilpitz in Texas in 1942
Incident
Howard Wilpitz, age 32, a rice field worker who was about to be inducted into the army, was killed in 1942 by a mob of thirty men in Brookshire, Waller County, Texas. Wilpitz was out celebrating his induction into the military when Constable Fritz Abel and H. Cooper, a night watchman, ordered him to leave town. A struggle ensued, during which Wilpitz was shot in the leg and managed to shoot a gun out of the hand of one of the officers. Wilpitz ran for cover, but the officers assembled a mob, which riddled Wilpitz’s body with bullets.
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advocacy group resources
- Organizational records by the NAACP
- Advocacy Group: 2020-02528-WILPITZ Howard (1356693916)
- Advocacy Group: 2020-02528-WILPITZ Howard (1356693916)
- Advocacy Group: 2020-02528-WILPITZ Howard (1356693916)
- Advocacy Group: 2020-02530-VINSON Willie (1356706846)
- Advocacy Group: 2020-02528-WILPITZ Howard (1356693916)
- Advocacy Group: 2020-02528-WILPITZ Howard (1356693916)
- Advocacy Group: 2020-02528-WILPITZ Howard (1356693916)
- Advocacy Group: 2020-02528-WILPITZ Howard (1356693916)
- Advocacy Group: 2018-01580-THOMPSON Roosevelt (1157706766)
- Federal Bureau of Investigation, files. Howard Wilpitz
- Federal Bureau of Investigation, J. Edgar Hoover correspondence. Howard Wilpitz
- Federal Bureau of Investigation, files. Howard Wilpitz
- Federal Bureau of Investigation, case file card. Howard WIlpitz
- Government Incident Records: 2020-02528-WILPITZ Howard (1356693916)
- Department of Justice, files. Howard Wilpitz
- Government Incident Records: 2020-02528-WILPITZ Howard (1356693916)
- Federal Bureau of Investigation, files. Howard WIlpitz
- Government Incident Records: 2020-02528-WILPITZ Howard (1356693916)
- Federal Bureau of Investigation, files. Howard WIlpitz
- News article from the Indianapolis Recorder regarding the case of Howard Wilpitz and W. Vinson
- News article from the Baltimore Afro-American about the killing of Howard Wilpitz : October 24, 1942
- News article from San Antonio Register about lynching : July, 1942
- News article from Baltimore Afro-American about funeral for lynching victim Howard Wilpitz : October 24, 1942
- News article from the New York Amsterdam News regarding the lynching of Howard Wilpitz : March 21, 1942
- News article from Indianapolis Recorder about lynching of Howard Wilpitz
- News article from the Baltimore Afro-American about the attacks against Howard Wilpitz and others : March 14, 1942
- Journalism : 2020-02528-WILPITZ Howard (1356693916)
- News article from Chicago Defender about lynching of Howard Wilpitz : March 21, 1942
- Journalism: 2020-02528-WILPITZ Howard (1356693916)
- News article from the Baltimore Afro-American mentioning the lynching of Howard Wilpitz and Willie Vinson : March 14, 1942
- News article from the Baltimore Afro-American mentioning the lynching of Howard Wilpitz and Willie Vinson : March 14, 1942
- News article from the Washington Post regarding the lynching of Howard Wilpitz : May 17, 1930
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