Lynched in Bulloch County: Jake Braswell, July 15, 1886; Kennedy Gordon, April 11, 1901; Paul Reed and William Cato, Aug. 16, 1904; Albert Roberts and another Black person, name unknown, Aug. 17, 1904; Sebastian McBride, Aug. 27, 1904; Thompson Gilbert, Feb. 18, 1908; Henry Jackson, April 21, 1911.
These are nine human beings of color who were lynched – savagely murdered by crowds or groups of white people – within Bulloch County, Georgia, as identified by the Equal Justice Initiative, or EJI. Their identities and dates of death are embossed on a six-foot,…
