Ed Coy Burned Alive in Texarkana, Arkansas 1892

Ed Coy was burned alive in Texarkana, Arkansas on February 20, 1892. According to Ida B. Wells's investigation, the woman who accused him later admitted the relationship had been consensual. His accuser's husband helped ignite the pyre. Wells cited the Coy case in Southern Horrors as proof that lynching was used to police interracial relationships and to punish Black economic and social advancement.