Dennis Cross
- Full Name
- Dennis Cross
- Victim Profile
- Dennis Cross
- Biography
- On September 24, 1933, Dennis Cross, 50 years old, was lynched in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, near the country club. He was lynched by a white mob disguised as police officers after being accused of accosting a white woman. The mob dragged Cross, who was paraplegic, out of his home and shot him. Cross was a widowed farm laborer and the son of Dennis Cross Sr. and Jane Rhoden.
- Documented or Attempted
- Documented
- Birth Date
- Circa 1884
- County of Birth; County of Death
- N/A; Tuscaloosa County
- Death Date
- September 24, 1933
- Age at Death
- 50
- Race
- Black
- Sex
- Male
- Researchers
- Abby Rathel, Brooklynn Coleman, and Callie Rhodes
- Case Number
- AMP541-19330924-000
- Identified by:
- Alabama Memory Project
- Mother
- Jane Rhoden
- Father
- Dennis Cross Sr.
- Occupation
- Widowed Farm Laborer
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