William Baker was an 18-year-old African-American man who was lynched in Monroe County, Mississippi by a white mob on March 8, 1922.

[1] Between Okolona and Aberdeen, Mississippi, 18-year-old farmhand William Baker was putting a buggy into its shed when the six-year-old daughter of Constable Sidney Johnson got into it.

[3] The Chicago Whip writes the lynching took place 10 miles (16 km) from Aberdeen, Mississippi.

[4] In 1899, Keith Bowen, an African-American man was lynched by a mob after an alleged assault.

[5] In 1914, Mayho Miller, an 18-year-old Negro boy, was lynched by a mob after an alleged assault.