Paul Jones[a] was lynched on November 2, 1919, after being accused of attacking a fifty-year-old white woman in Macon, Georgia.

On Sunday, November 2, 1919, Paul Jones allegedly attacked a white woman about 2 miles (3.2 km) outside of Macon.

[2] Paul Jones was chased through town until he was cornered in a rail boxcar, where the woman positively identified him.

[3] A white mob of 400 people quickly assembled and over the protests of Sheriff James R. Hicks they seized Jones.

These race riots were one of several incidents of civil unrest that began in the so-called American Red Summer of 1919, which included terrorist attacks on black communities and white oppression in over three dozen cities and counties.