John Carter

John Carter was a black man lynched by a Little Rock mob who believed he had assaulted two white women. Carter's body was dragged behind a car and burned on top of a pile of church pews torn from a local African-American church. In the wake of the lynching, the Little Rock Chamber of Commerce called for the removal of the mayor, chief of police, and sheriff, without result.

References

• James Harmon Chadbourn, Lynching and the Law (The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., 2008), 66-67.