Dan Anderson was an African-American man who was murdered inMacon, Mississippi, on May 20, 1927, at the age of 32.^[1][2] Anderson's father and grandfather had also been lynched.^[3]

On May 15, 1927, Anderson was accused of killing T. C. Edwards, a white farmer from Cliftonville, Mississippi. Anderson allegedly ambushed and shot Edwards as he was approaching a tenant house on the property. The rifle used in the shooting was supposedly hidden by one of Anderson's friends, and was found in a chicken coop. Anderson had been a tenant at the Edwards farm preceding the alleged murder. He was arrested inTuscaloosa, Alabama. A mob of 300 to 500 men overtook Noxubee County sheriff T. B. Adams and took Anderson to the woods, firing more than 200 bullets into his body.^[4]

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