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Lynching of Jim McIlherron
Location	Estill Springs, Tennessee, U.S.
Date	February 12, 1918
Attack type	Lynching

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Jim McIlherron was an African-American man who was tortured and executed by a lynch mob on February 12, 1918, in Estill Springs, Tennessee. McIlherron was lynched in retaliation for shooting and killing two white men after a fight broke out.

Walter White wrote a report on the lynching for the May 1918 issue of the NAACP magazine The Crisis.^[1]^[2]

It was also covered by the York Daily Record and The New York Times in February 1918.^[3]^[4]

^ White, Walter F. (1 May 1918). "Burning of Jim McIlherron: An N.A.A.C.P. Investigation". The Crisis: A Record of the Darker Races. 16 (May): 16–20. Retrieved 20 July 2021.
^ Ellsworth, Scott (2021-05-18). The Ground Breaking: The Tulsa Race Massacre and an American City's Search for Justice. Penguin. pp. 127–128. ISBN 978-0-593-18300-7.
^ "Negro Dies at Stake – Red Hot Irons Force Confession From Slayer of Two White Men Still Springs". York Daily Record. Retrieved 26 September 2015.
^ "Negro Burned at Stake: Tennessee Mob, with Hot Irons, Forces Slayer to Confess" (PDF). The New York Times. February 13, 1918. Retrieved July 20, 2021.