Johanna Aiken

Death by Force

Johanna Aiken, a resident of Harriston, Mississippi, tragically lost her life on September 28, 1903, during a violent incident that shook the small town. The event was part of a larger spree of violence initiated by Willie Jones, an eighteen-year-old mulatto boy, who went on a murder rampage early that morning. Armed with a double-barrel shotgun and a supply of buckshot shells, Jones indiscriminately shot at both white and black residents of Harriston.

The chaos began at a house where J ...Read More

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