lynching of Thomas Williams

{{short description|Lynching of a Black man in Tennessee, 1927}}

{{Infobox civilian attack

| title = Lynching of Thomas Williams

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| location = Memphis, Tennessee, USA

| target = Thomas Williams

| date = {{start date|1927|09|28}}

| coordinates = {{coord|35|07|03|N|89|58|16|W|region:US-TN}}

| type = Lynching

| weapons = Noose, gun(s)

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Thomas Williams was an African-American man who was lynched by a mob in Memphis, Tennessee, on September 28, 1927.{{cite news |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CMsZAAAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PA19 |page=19 |newspaper=Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life |title=The Law's Too Slow |date=January 1928 |accessdate=May 23, 2021}}

John R. Steelman, who wrote his PhD dissertation on "mob action in the South", listed Williams as one of the cases, wrote: "'The bullet-riddled body of Thomas Williams, alleged to have attacked a fifty-year old white woman, was found in Pleasant Union Churchyard, two miles from the scene of the crime' - near Memphis."{{cite thesis |type=PhD |title=A Study of Mob Action in the South |first=John R. |last=Steelman | authorlink=John R. Steelman |publisher=University of North Carolina |year=1928 |page=178|url=https://archive.org/stream/studyofmobaction00stee/studyofmobaction00stee_djvu.txt}}