Lynching of Isadore Banks

Lynching of Isadore Banks
Date	June 1954
Location	Marion, Crittenden County, Arkansas
Participants	Unknown assailants
Deaths	Isadore Banks (aged 58)

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Related topics Black genocide Civil rights movement (1865–1896) Civil rights movement (1896–1954) Mass racial violence in the United States

The lynching of Isadore Banks occurred in Marion County, Arkansas in 1954. No investigation ever occurred and no murderers were found. Banks was a wealthy African-American man in Arkansas. Nobody was ever charged for his death, and it remains one of the cold cases of the Civil Rights era.