DYERSBURG TN LYNCHING BY HANGING OR BURN TO DEATH BY KKK COMMITTEES OUTRIVALS WORST GERMAN SOLDIERS ATROCITIES DURING WWI

Dr. Hiram Wesley Evans was the Ku Klux Klan's Imperial Wizard and Imperial Cyclops from Nov 1922 through to June 10th 1939, KKK boss Hiram Evans frequented Dyersburg TN in 1925. KKK boss Hiram Evans home base was in Atlanta GA and Washington D.C. but he came to little Dyersburg TN for the wedding of his attorney J. A. Comer to the daughter of the Mayor of Dyersburg TN towards the end of December 1924. KKK boss Evans was taken ill on the last day of the wedding festivities and needed a very serious operation, acute appendicitis, at Dyersburg General Hospital on Jan 1st, 1925. KKK boss Hiram Evans stayed at the Atwood Hotel located on the corner of Main Avenue and Court Street in downtown Dyersburg TN for the whole month of Jan 1925 recuperating after the serious operation. Ku Klux Klan bosses, R.K. Lyle and Norman K. Campbell stayed in Dyersburg TN with National KKK big boss Dr. Hiram Wesley Evans at the Atwood Hotel for 30 days in Jan 1925. For the whole month of Jan 1925 Dyersburg TN was the home of the KKK National office. 

Local crime rate information as of August 2nd, 2024 for Dyerburg TN: With a crime rate of 62 per one thousand residents, Dyersburg has one of the highest crime rates in America compared to all communities of all sizes - from the smallest towns to the very largest cities. One's chance of becoming a victim of either violent or property crime here is one in 16, no go Dyersburg TN.

KKK boss Hiram Evans had led the kidnapping and torture of a black man while leader of the Dallas Klan. He admitted that many Klan members were of rural, uneducated backgrounds like Dyersburg but argued that power should be given to "the common people of America". Dr. Evans formed Klan-themed groups for children. Names of original KKK organizers in Pulaski TN are Calvin E. Jones, John B. Kennedy, Frank O. McCord, John C. Lester, Richard P. Reed, James R. Crowe (Jim Crowe). and Jamie Porter's name written on back of the original plaque. There were historically 27 Klaverns (KKK) in Tennessee. The cities below, like Dyersburg, are the places where there were Klans back in the day and where the number of Klans per the current population is high. This means the number of racist members of the community has historically been the highest, according to the math.

The 10 Most Historically Racist Places In Tennessee

1. Estill Springs
2. Medina
3. Harrison
4. Pulaski
5. Lenoir City
6. Paris
7. McMinnville
8. Dyersburg  <<<<<<<<<<<Dyer County TN
   
9. Tullahoma
10. Cleveland

DYERSBURG TN HOME TO KKK AND 'MIKE' LYNCHING TREE' AT COURTHOUSE SQ.

A Kangaroo Court conviction was the "legal" form of justice in Dyer County TN for decades. Dyersburg TN was a KKK stronghold from 1865 through the 1920's, at least 9 black men hanged (lynched or burnt or to death) in front of the Dyer County Court House up through the 1920's. The grand oak tree that stood in front of the Dyer County Court House was nicknamed the "Mike Lynching Tree", yes Dyersburg Dyer County TN has a lot to be ashamed of, no editorial newspaper scrubbing will ever make it clean! "Tennessee is the state where the Ku Klux Klan was founded. The Klan in Tennessee was concentrated in the western divisions, (Dyersburg and Dresden), and eastern divisions of the state, being introduced into Knoxville in the spring of 1921 when Grand Kleagle Henry P. Fry recruited members there, in Johnson City, Bristol, and other upper East Tennessee cities. On August 26, 1874, a mob of white men (KKK) seized 16 Black men from the Gibson County Jail in Trenton, Tennessee, and lynched all of them.

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On Friday Nov 7th, 1913 a Dyersburg TN mob (KKK) broke down the Dyer County TN jail door with a sledge hammer and dragged a 18 year old negro by the name John Talley out into the Dyer County courtyard and strung him up to the 'Mike Lynching Tree'. John Talley's crime was attempted assault. Not even the typical 'Kangaroo Court' was in session this day in Dyersburg TN, the Klan just murdered Mr Talley on the spot.

Newspapers across America on December 2nd to December 5th 1917 had the following headline on page 1, TENNESSEE LYNCHING OUTRIVALS WORST GERMAN ATROCITIES DURING WWI, damming the good people of Dyersburg TN. On Dec 2nd 1917 Lation Scott aka Lation Jenkins, a black man, was tortured and burned to death by a Dyersburg TN mob (KKK) of thousands. And you thought ISIS was bad, in the deep South 'lynching' could mean hanging or burned to death at an iron stake after the victim was shot, stabbed, castrated and disemboweled. The torture and lynching of Lation Scott was widely reported on at the time, with Baltimore newspaper The 'Afro-American' running the headline TENNESSEE LYNCHING OF LATION SCOTT IN DYERSBURG OUTRIVALS WORST GERMAN ATROCITIES DURING WWI and coverage in The New York Times.

A deep dive into the history of how the Criminal Justice System works in Dyersburg, Dyer County TN and Dresden, Weakley County TN reveals some very disturbing results. In 1917 if you were convicted of murder in Dyersburg, Dyer County TN you could/would have been tortured and burned to death at an iron stake near the Dyer County Courthouse in Dyersburg, TN. Southern whites in MS, GA, Fl, TN, NC, and elsewhere lynched hundreds of black citizens for a wide variety of alleged offenses to frighten them into remembering their proscribed role in society and into obeying white supremacist codes. 

In 1882, lynching returned to Northwest Tennessee. During the 1880s, thirteen black men and one white man were lynched in Obion and Dyer Counties TN. Fred King lynched Dyersburg Tennessee February 18th 1901 at 'Mike Lynching Tree' in front of Dyersburg Courthouse, unidentified black man lynched Dyer Co Tennessee August 1869, John Talley lynched Dyersburg Tennessee November 7th 1913, William Thomas lynched Dyersburg Tennessee March 19th 1916, Ligon Scott lynched Dyersburg Tennessee December 2nd 1917. Often the victim’s innocence was moot; his tormentors still believed that someone else of the same race committed the crime. To the man who held the rope it did not matter if the victim was guilty. White citizens, (KKK) local law enforcement agents and even members of the federal government defended lynching as a fair and appropriate way to administer justice in the South. Dyersburg TN was one of the worst Southern towns for lynching black men.

Lation Scott aka Lation Jenkins was murdered in Dyersburg, Tennessee on December 2, 1917 after ten days on the run. Lation Scott  had assaulted Mrs Herbert Hudson wife of a prominent farmer in Dyer county on Nov 22, 1917. Lation Scott was tortured for 3 1/2 hours while all of Dyersburg watched, and then burned at the iron stake. Author Margaret Vandiver wrote in Lethal Punishment: Lynchings and Legal Executions in the South, “The lynching of Lation Scott was the most ghastly of all those I researched.” H. L. Mitchell, future president of the Southern Tenant Farmers Union, wrote of the lynching, "The flames rose high, and the odor of burning flesh permeated the air. The black man's body sagged against the iron post and chains" before a Dyersburg TN crowd estimated at 7,000–8,000 people. The 1910 census had 4,149 people living in Dyersburg TN, the 1920 census had 6,444 people living in Dyersburg. It looks like every man, woman and child of Dyer County TN came to watch the Lation Scott torture and lynching.

At least nine men had been lynched by 'Organized Vigilance Committees' (code for KKK) in the small rural county of Dyer County TN for offenses ranging from horse theft to murder. In 1835, a "Organized Vigilance Committee" in Nashville, Tennessee was responsible, after a kangaroo court "conviction", for the public whipping of Rev. Amos Dresser, a white man, for the crime of distributing abolitionist publications which he claimed he did not do. Committee of Vigilance (KKK), composed of prominent town citizens acting outside the law, arrested and publicly whipped Dresser for being a member of an Ohio anti-slavery society and possessing and allegedly disseminating anti-slavery materials. The names of all 62 members of the self-appointed vigilance committee were published by the American Anti-Slavery Society, annotating some as "Elder in the Presbyterian Church" and the like.

PRIVATE DETECTIVE MURDERED COLUMBIA TN; In an effort to curb the violent acts of the KKK, Governor William G. Brownlow called for an extra session of the legislature which, following the investigation of a Ku Klux Klan committee, reestablished the militia and gave him the power to declare martial law in any county necessary. Members of the Klan and other secret societies engaged in terrorism were subject to arrest by any citizen, a five-hundred-dollar fine, and imprisonment for up to five years under a so-called Ku Klux Klan Act. Gov. Brownlow, who wished to see prominent KKK leaders and ex-Confederates tried and convicted in order to make examples of them, employed a Cincinnati private detective, Seymour Barmore, to infiltrate the Klan and gather names. 

When private detective Seymour Barmore’s body turned up in the Duck River near Columbia TN on February 20, 1869, with a rope around his neck and bullet hole in his head, Brownlow declared martial law on the same day in nine counties in Middle and West Tennessee, including Giles County, Humphreys County, Lincoln County, Marshall County, Maury County, along with Dyer County, Fayette County, Gibson County, Hardeman County, and Obion County. Five days later Brownlow resigned as governor to fill a seat in the U.S. Senate. Subsequently, KKK boss Nathan Bedford Forrest, believing that the Klan had served its purpose, called for the members to destroy their robes.

The political influence of the KKK in Tennessee helped elect Governor Austin Peay in 1923 and U.S. Senator Lawrence D. Tyson in 1924. In 1997 the U.S. Klans, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, Inc., received incorporation from the Tennessee secretary of state’s office as a nonprofit organization at Camden, Tennessee. Dyersburg TN is the most evil and racist town in all of America!


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