Robert Harris

Full Name: Robert Harris
Victim Profile: Robert Harris
Biography: On July 13th, 1898, Robert Harris, around 30 years old, was lynched in Coaling, Alabama, by a railroad by an unknown amount of white townspeople after being accused of assaulting two white women. Harris was said to be accompanied by another African-American man, Sidney Johnson. Robert Harris was a six-foot, mixed man supposedly from Perry County.
Documented or Attempted: Documented
Birth Date: Circa 1868
County of Birth; County of Death: N/A; Tuscaloosa County
Death Date: July 13, 1898
Age at Death: 30
Race: Black
Sex: Male
Researchers: Jashon Griffin, Mariska Perdick
Case Number: AMP 125-18980713-002
Identified by:: Alabama Memory Project