November 13, 1893

Dan T. Nelson was lynched by a mob of African Americans in Lincoln County for allegedly murdering Ben Betts. Unlike most lynchings in Arkansas (and the United States), several of the perpetrators of this crime were actually tried and sent to jail, perhaps because the mob was composed entirely of African Americans.

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