John West was a 50-year-old African-American man who was lynched in Guernsey, Hempstead County, Arkansas by a group of men on the Hope-Texarkana train on July 28, 1922.

[1] John West was born in Emporia, Kansas and had moved to Hope, Arkansas two weeks prior to his murder.

A fight broke out over the crew's common drinking cup and the statement that West was as good as any white worker.

The newspaper The Little River News reported that West was probably "shot after he flourished a pistol and threatened the men who intended only to whip him.

On March 15, 1921, Brownie Tuggles was lynched, in Hope, Hempstead County, Arkansas, after being accused of assaulting a white woman.