Miles (or Relius) Phifer and Robert Crosky were lynched in Montgomery, Alabama, for allegedly assaulting a white woman.

In August or September 1919 Miles Phifer and Robert Crosky, Army veterans, were arrested over allegations they assaulted two white women in separate incidents in Montgomery, Alabama.

[1] A mob had formed and a concerned citizen notified Alabama's Governor Thomas Kilby that there might be a lynching.

[2] On September 29, 1919, the sheriff and his deputies were transporting Phifer and Crosky when they were stopped by a white mob of about 25 masked men.

Most deaths occurred in rural areas during events like the Elaine race riot in Arkansas, where an estimated 100 to 240 blacks and 5 whites were killed.