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About Alexander Boyd
Alexander Boyd was notable as the Republican County Solicitor and Register in Chancery of Greene County, Alabama in 1870 during Reconstruction who was murdered by a lynching party of Ku Klux Klan members. He was fatally shot on March 31, 1870, in Eutaw, the county seat. The Klan members intended to hang him in the square in a public lynching, to demonstrate their power during this period and their threat to Republicans.
Everything about Alexander Boyd →- Occupation
- lawyer
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- 1834
- Died
- March 31, 1870