C.J. Miller Burned Alive in Bardwell, Kentucky 1893

C.J. Miller, a Black man who consistently maintained his innocence and whose guilt was doubted even by some white witnesses, was burned alive by a mob in Bardwell, Kentucky, on July 7, 1893. His charred bones were later divided as souvenirs. Ida B. Wells investigated and documented the case in her anti-lynching writings as evidence that lynching was divorced from any actual determination of guilt.