Justice Denied: The Lynching of Robert Marshall BY LARRY R. GERLACH
18, 1925, ROBERT " B O B " MARSHALL, an itinerant coal miner of African-American descent, was murdered by a lynch mob in Carbon County. Afterward, newspapers t h r o u g h o u t U t a h a n d across t h e nation carried stories about an o c c u r r e n c e that was, tragically, n o t u n c o m m o n . From 1882 to 1964, the year of the last recorded lynching in the United States, at least 4,743 people were executed by J u d g e O N JUNE
Dr. Gerlach, professor of history at the University of Utah, presented this paper at a commemorative gathering in the Price cemetery April 4, 1998. Photo: Robert Marshall. USHS collections.