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Type. murder, lynching. Casualties. Alonzo Tucker. Alonzo Tucker was an African American boxer and owned a gym in Coos Bay, Oregon. He was accused by Mrs. Dennis for assault. After the lynching, Dennis and her family quickly left town and headed to California.
- September 18, 1902; 121 years ago
Learn about the 1902 lynching of Alonzo Tucker, a Black man accused of sexually assaulting a white woman in Coos Bay, Oregon. Explore the historical context, the soil-collection ceremony, the historical marker, and the campaign for true justice.
ORP was founded in 2018 by Taylor Stewart to memorialize Alonzo Tucker, Oregon’s most widely documented African American victim of lynching. Stewart started ORP after taking a life-changing trip to the American South where he first encountered the history of lynching at the Equal Justice Initiative’s Legacy Museum and National Memorial for ...
Alonzo Tucker – Oregon Remembrance Project. For three years, ORP worked with the community of Coos Bay, OR to memorialize Alonzo Tucker, Oregon’s most widely documented African American victim of lynching, who was lynched in Coos Bay on September 18, 1902.
Alonzo Tucker was the only documented lynching in Oregon's history, committed in 1902 in Coos Bay. A group of Oregonians working to create a memorial for him share their research and their vision for educating the community about the state's racist history and restorative justice. Listen back to a conversation from 2020 with Jay Brown and Taylor Stewart.
26. Juni 2021 · On September 18, 1902, a white mob lynched Alonzo Tucker, a Black man in Coos Bay, then called Marshfield. The day prior, Mr. Tucker had been arrested and placed in jail after being accused of assaulting a white woman near the 7th Street Marshfield Bridge. As news of his arrest spread, a white lynch mob formed.
18. Juni 2021 · A crowd of 300 people watched as Tucker was lynched by a local mob on Sept. 18, 1902, after he was accused of sexually assaulting a white woman who was the wife of a local coal miner.
