Jim and Mark Fox were two African-American brothers, who were murdered inLouisville, Mississippi, in 1927.On June 13, 1927, a mob of 1,000 white men from Louisville lynched two African-Americans, Jim and Mark Fox.^[1] In the aftermath of theGreat Mississippi Flood of 1927, the Fox brothers were working in or for a Red Cross camp, and got into an argument with a white sawmill superintendent, allegedly killing him.^[2] The argument apparently concerned work hours. The two brothers were seized by a crowd and paraded through Louisville; then they were tied to a telephone pole, doused in gasoline, and burned alive.^[3] An onlooker who tried to help them was pulled away by the crowd.^[4]

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