Lynching of Jake Davis
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Jake "Shake" Davis was a 62-year-old African-American man who was lynched in Miller County, Georgia by a white mob on July 14, 1922. According to the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary it was the 38th of 61 lynchings during 1922 in the United States. [1]
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Part of Jim Crow Era | |
Date | July 14, 1922 |
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Location | Miller County, Georgia |
Participants | White mob |
Deaths | Jake Davis |
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