Lynching of Arthur Jordan

[citation needed] After having been located, Elvira Corder refused return to Fauquier County with the search party and Arthur Jordan.

[2] This specific event was covered by a large number of local media sources, including the Alexandria Gazette, The Washington Post, Staunton Spectator, The Baltimore Sun,[5] the Warrenton Solid South, the Richmond Dispatch, the Loudoun Times-Mirror, The Evening Globe, and The Leesburg Mirror.

[1] Jordan's lynching was also covered by newspapers geographically further away, including in Delaware, Louisiana, Missouri, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Australia, and New Zealand.

[3] Due to the political and social climates of the Jim Crow south, most media articles portrayed Nathan Corder and those who lynched Jordan as heroic victims.

[citation needed] James Madison University's Racial Terror: Lynching in Virginia Research Project has included Jordan as victim VA1880011901.

Hall embarked on a book signing and lecture tour in the areas surrounding Jordan's lynching following its release.

Abandoned Markham train depot.
The Fauquier Jail in Old Town Warrenton, where Jordan was confined. Now the Old Jail Museum.
The 1887 Confederate Dead Monument in the Warrenton Cemetery. Arthur Jordan was lynched near this monument.
The National Memorial for Peace and Justice.