The history of lynching Black people in Greenville, South Carolina
In late summer 1899, somewhere near Travelers Rest, Tom Keith drew his last breath. An online database lists Keith among the lynching victims of 1860-1950, and cites the method of his death as "riddled by bullets." Robert Williams kidnapped and murdered in 1881 White residents of Greenville and Anderson counties participated in the 1881 kidnap and murder of a Black man. That man was Robert Williams. He was a husband and a father of two children. He was also accused of assaulting a white woman. Ira Johnson hung from a tree in 1895 Ira Johnson's lifeless body was found by a child, hanging from...