October 11, 1915 – Clarksdale, Mississippi: The Double Lynching of a Chinese and a Black Man

[AI-generated placeholder. Human narrative coming soon.] On October 11, 1915, in Clarksdale, Mississippi, a masked mob broke into the county jail and lynched two prisoners: Ed Moy, a Chinese man, and Frank Smith, an African American man. Both had been accused of killing a white bank cashier during a robbery. The mob “took [the suspects] from their cells in the county jail… and lynched” them before they could face trial (Oregon Daily Journal, Oct. 11, 1915). This double lynching targeting victims of two different races was widely condemned in hindsight, but at the time, local white residents largely tolerated it. No member of the lynch mob was held accountable. It is notable as the final recorded lynching of a Chinese person in the United States.