The Lynching of Willie Earle in Greenville – 1947
Willie Earle, an African American, was accused of killing Thomas Watson Brown, a cab driver from Greenville, SC. Thirty-one white men (mostly cab drivers – all white) drove from Greenville in the middle of the night to take Earle out of the Pickens County Jail. They then beat him, burned him, and shot him in … Read more