Leonard Woods was an African-American man who was lynched by a mob in Pound Gap, on the border between Kentucky and Virginia, after they broke him out of jail ...
Lynching of Leonard Woods
Leonard Woods was an African-American man who was lynched by a mob in Pound Gap, on the border between Kentucky and Virginia, after they broke him out of jail in Whitesburg, Kentucky, on November 30, 1927. Woods was alleged to have killed the... Wikipedia
Date: November 30, 1927
Location: Pound Gap
Summary: Leonard Woods, an African American man, was lynched in Wise, Virginia on November 30th, 1927, for the murder of Harshall Deaton, a white mine foreman.
Text of marker: Leonard Woods Lynched Leonard Woods, a black coal miner from Jenkins, KY, was lynched near here on the night of 29-30 Nov. 1927. Officers had ...
Leonard Woods, a black coal miner from Jenkins, KY, was lynched near here on the night of 29-30 Nov. 1927.
Nov 19, 2021 · On July 7th, 2021, the Wise County Virginia Community Remembrance Project conducted a soil gathering ceremony at the lynching site of ...
Leonard Woods, a black coal miner from Jenkins, KY, was lynched near here on the night of 29-30 Nov. 1927.
Oct 14, 2021 · Leonard Woods was lynched in Wise County, Virginia in 1927. "Leonard Woods was a miner, a Black man originally from Pittsburgh," said Tom Costa, ...
Nov 24, 2021 · ... lynching of Leonard Woods on November 30th, 1927. Mr. Woods extrajudicial killing by a mob was the last documented murder of it's type in ...
Nov 27, 2021 · Mr. Woods extrajudicial killing by a mob was the last documented murder of it's type in the state of Virginia. The next year, in 1928, the State ...
The corpse of Leonard Woods after he was lynched in Pound Gap, Kentucky on 29th November 1927.... Done. Loading comments... Add comment. 488 views.