Cordella Stevenson
Cordella Stevenson was an African-American woman who was lynched by a mob of white men in Columbus, Mississippi on December 15, 1915.
Stevenson's son was accused of burning a barn belonging to Gabe Frank, a white man. Based on Frank's hunch that Stevenson had burned the barn, police arrested Cordella Stevenson and her husband Arch Stevenson and held them for six days.
Upon their release, a mob of white men broke into their home, sexually assaulted her and hung her naked from a tree near the Mobile and Ohio Railroad.
Arch escaped on foot and ran into Columbus, but was unable to obtain aid. His fate remains unknown. No one was ever arrested for Stevenson's rape and murder.
