Killing of George Johnson in Texas in 1930
Incident
George Johnson, 30, a farm worker, was killed in 1930 by a sheriff’s posse in Honey Grove, Fannin County, Texas. Johnson was charged with the killing of his landlord, a white man named Fortenberry, in an altercation over debt. He was shot to death by the sheriff’s posse after barricading himself in his cabin. His body was tied to a car, dragged through the business district of a Black section of town, and burned. A race riot ensued perpetrated by a white mob that brutalized and destroyed the Black section of Honey Grove.
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- Advocacy Group: 2022-04105-JOHNSON George (1417945546)
- Advocacy Group: 2019-01800-JENKINS Dan (1197585211)
- Advocacy Group: 2017-00703-WOOD Laura (1049033386)
- Advocacy Group: 2019-01878-ROAN William (1208295871)
- Advocacy Group: 2019-01878-ROAN William (1208295871)
- Organizational records by the NAACP
- Advocacy Group: 2022-04105-JOHNSON George (1417945546)
- Advocacy Group: 2019-01878-ROAN William (1208295871)
- Advocacy Group: 2022-04105-JOHNSON George (1417945546)
- Advocacy Group: 2022-04105-JOHNSON George (1417945546)
- Advocacy Group: 2021-02884-MINCEY C.C. (1384923901)
- Advocacy Group: 2019-01878-ROAN William (1208295871)
- Advocacy Group: 2016-00716-KIRKLAND William (1049258426)
- Advocacy Group: 2022-04105-JOHNSON George (1417945546)
- Organizational records by the NAACP
- Advocacy Group: 2022-04101-HUGHES George (1417479646)
- Organizational records by the NAACP
- Advocacy Group: 2021-02884-MINCEY C.C. (1384923901)
- Advocacy Group: 2017-00705-THOMPSON Bennie (1049033420)
- Advocacy Group: 2016-00716-KIRKLAND William (1049258426)
- Advocacy Group: 2021-02884-MINCEY C.C. (1384923901)
- Advocacy Group: 2021-02884-MINCEY C.C. (1384923901)
- Advocacy Group: 2019-01878-ROAN William (1208295871)
- Advocacy Group: 2022-04105-JOHNSON George (1417945546)
- Advocacy Group: 2022-04105-JOHNSON George (1417945546)
- Advocacy Group: 2022-04105-JOHNSON George (1417945546)
- Organizational records by the NAACP
- News article from the Washington Post regarding the slaying of George Johnson : May 17, 1930
- Journalism: 2022-04105-JOHNSON George (1417945546)
- Journalism: 2022-04105-JOHNSON George (1417945546)
- News article from the Baltimore Afro-American about the attacks against George Hughes and George Johnson : May 24, 1930
- News article from the Chicago Defender regarding the lynching of George Johnson : January 3, 1931
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