1929-11-12 "Carlton To Make Investigation of Quincy Lynching" in The Tampa Times

An article in The Tampa Times, published in Tampa, Florida on November 12, 1929 "Carlton To Make Investigation of Quincy Lynching". Will Larkins, an African-American man, was accused of assaulting a school-girl and taken to the county jail. Later, he was taken from the jail (and sheriff's custody) by a mob, hanged with a wire, shot, and dragged through the streets of Quincy, Florida before his body was burned.

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