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On April 13, 1937, Roosevelt Townes and Robert McDaniels, two black men, were lynched in Duck Hill, Mississippi by a white mob after being labeled as the murderers of a white storekeeper. [1] [2] [3] They had only been legally accused of the crime a few minutes before they were kidnapped from the courthouse, chained to trees, and tortured with ...
Robert “Bootjack” McDaniels and Roosevelt “Red” Townes were lynched by a White mob after being accused of killing a White storekeeper in Duck Hill. Kidnapped from the Courthouse and chained to trees, the two men were tortured with a blow torch, after which McDaniels was shot to death and Townes was burned alive.
Talamieka Brice is the project manager behind the Bootjack and Red marker erected in the Duck Hill, Miss., town square. On April 13, 1937, a white mob kidnapped, tortured and lynched Roosevelt “Red” Townes and Robert “Bootjack” McDaniels for killing George Windham, a white grocery-store owner.
This paper traces the history of one specific photograph and its exhibition over time from the 1930s through the 1980s: that of the lynching of ‘Bootjack’ McDaniels, tortured to death by a white mob in Duck Hill, Mississippi, in 1937.
A historical marker commemorating the tragic lynching and torture deaths of Robert “Bootjack” McDaniels and Roosevelt “Red” Townes will be unveiled in Duck Hill, Mississippi on April 13, 2023.
Two Black prisoners in Duck Hill, Mississippi, were sprung from their jail cells with the collusion of the local sheriff, tortured and burned to death. Yet no one was charged. With this shocking crime in the air, the Gavagan bill moved to the Senate, only to be filibustered.
Followed by 40 automobiles, the bus sped down the highway toward Duck Hill. Two miles from the scene of last December’s murder, 500 country folk, including women and children, waited...
