David Jones was an African-American man who was lynched in Nashville, Tennessee on March 25, 1872 after being arrested as a suspect in a killing.
[1] By 9pm, they walked to the jail, where they broke into Jones's cell, shot him twice when he resisted, and put a halter around his head.
[1] Sheriff Donaldson interrupted the hanging, taking Jones down from the post and carrying him back to the police station.
[1] Governor Brown ordered a detachment of federal troops from Ash Barracks to act as a posse under the mayor's direction,[2] and vowed to prosecute the lynchers.
A metropolitan coalition known as "We Remember Nashville," together with the Equal Justice Initiative, plans events and education that week related to the four cases of lynching in the city in the late 19th century.