Lynching of Johnnie Cornish: May 6, 1922
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City: Kirvin, Texas County: Freestone County Race or Ethnicity of Victim: Black Gender of Victim: Male Age of Victim: 18 Alleged Crime: Murder Manner of Death: Burned Source of Information: NAACP 30 Years of Lynching
Additional Information: Monte Akers, Flames After Midnight. Online Information: Gabriela Bocagrande, "The Fire Last Time: A Review of Monte Akers, Flames After Midnight," Texas Observer, August 25, 2000.Files
"Three Negroes Burned At Stake Saturday Morning At Kirvin-Women Present."
Source: Corsicana Semi-Weekly Light (Corsicana, Texas) | Date: May 9, 1922
"Crime of Texas Negroes Worst in State's History."
Source: Washington Herald (Washington, D.C.) | Date: May 7, 1922
"Cornish Was Next."
Source: Corsicana Semi-Weekly Light (Corsicana, Texas) | Date: May 9, 1922
Johnnie Cornish - line 25 - 1920 U.S. Federal Census
Source: 1920 U.S. Federal Census | Date: February 26, 1920
Scene of the burnings of Johnny Cornish, Mose Jones, and Snap Curry on May 6, 1922.
Source: From Monte Akers, Flames After Midnight, 88. | Date: May 6, 1922
Otis King, right, Dog Sergeant S.O. Simmons, and the two bloodhounds flown in from Huntsville in front of the plow and pyre where Johnny Cornish, Mose Jones, and Snap Curry were burned alive a short time before this picture was taken.
Source: From Monte Akers, Flames After Midnight, 196. | Date: May 6, 1922
"Where three Negroes were burned at stake"
Source: W.E.B. Du Bois Papers - https://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/mums312-b167-i048 | Date: May 6, 1922
Scene Where Three Negro Murderers Were Burned
Date: May 6, 1922
"Record of Bloody May."
Source: Austin American-Statesman (Austin, Texas) | Date: June 4, 1922
"Race Riots on the Verge of Breaking Out."
Source: Waxahachie Daily Light (Waxahachie, Texas) | Date: May 8, 1922
Johnnie Cornish Marker - Fairfield Baptist Cemetery, Freestone County, Texas
Source: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/97297692/johnnie-cornish