"Red"
Biographical Information
Red
- Full Name
- Red
- Victim Profile
- Red
- Name Variations
- Riley Corley
- Biography
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On July 6, 1913, “Red,” a potential alias for Riley Corley, 33 years old, was lynched near Brookwood, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama by two white men, Kirby Bush and C.F. Moody, after being accused of shooting another African American man earlier in the day. Bush and Moody killed Corley instantaneously, shooting him through the right eye with a shot gun. Prior to being lynched, Corley was a newcomer to the Brookwood area, having worked for a year as a laborer on a local turpentine farm. Based on Corley’s occupation as a turpentine farmer, the description of both Red and Corley’s
location of deaths as “Near Brookwood,” and an initial preliminary trial of Red’s murderers by a Justice of Peace in the northern end of Tuscaloosa County (when Brookwood is in eastern Tuscaloosa County), the following triangular geographical range has been assumed for where Red could have potentially been killed. - Documented or Attempted
- Documented
- Birth Date
- Circa 1880
- County of Birth; County of Death
- N/A; Tuscaloosa County
- Death Date
- July 15, 1913
- Race
- Black
- Sex
- Male
- Researchers
- Teni Ciby
- Case Number
- AMP541-19130715-000
- Identified by:
- Alabama Memory Project
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Created
Nov 3, 2023
Modified
Nov 3, 2023