Lynching of Ed Johnson
LYNCHING IN 1906 IN CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE, UNITED STATES
Ed Johnson (victim of lynching); Ed Johnson (lynching victim); Death of Ed Johnson; Murder of Ed Johnson
On March 19, 1906, Ed Johnson, a young African American man, was murdered by a lynch mob in his home town of Chattanooga, Tennessee. He had been sentenced to death for the rape of Nevada Taylor, but Justice John Marshall Harlan of the United States Supreme Court had issued a stay of execution.