Alex Smith was a 60-year-old African-American man who was lynched in Gulfport, Harrison County, Mississippi by unknown attackers on March 22, 1922.

[1] Alex or Alexander Smith, from the Bayou Bernard bridge area, allegedly ran "a house of ill fame" that was raided early 1922 on the fringes of Gulfport.

Smith was seized and the coroner's report stated that he “came to his death by strangulation and pistol wounds at the hands of unknown persons” on March 22, 1922.

His body was found hanging from a bridge with multiple bullet wounds.

[2] [4] [3] Newspapers at the time stated that the Ku Klux Klan was rumored to have had a "party" to execute Smith.