The Usual Southern Misrepresentations

After plans of a purported race war in Simpson county, Mississippi are revealed, a mob of white men lynch the leader of the black people in town.

News of a race war In Sympson county, MS reached Jackson, MS., yesterday. The colored people are all alleged to have held several secret meetings recently, at which they entered into a conspiracy to murder the white people and burn their homes. One of these meetings was attended by white men, who secreted themselves and heard the plans. A colored woman made a fiery speech and told her auditors to murder the white men and the colored women would look after the white women and children. The exposure of the plot created great excitement among the whites, who took several of the colored leaders out and gave them severe whippings. The mob then took the colored woman to a swamp and no trace of her can be found since. It is believed that she was lynched.

“The Usual Southern Misrepresentations,” Black Virginia: The Richmond Planet, 1894-1909, accessed March 15, 2026, https://blackvirginia.richmond.edu/items/show/1502.