George Marshall Clarke (1838 — 1861) was an African American barber in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. On September 6, 1861, Clarke was forcibly taken from the city jail in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, questioned, and lynched by a crowd of fifty to seventy-five Irishmen. Marshall Clarke, along with another fellow African American named James P. Shelton, had exchanged insults and blows with two Irishmen who accused them of bothering two white women on the street, and Shelton ended up fatally stabbing Irishman Darby Carney. Clarke was eventually hanged from a pile driver later that night.
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| - George Marshall Clarke (1838 — 1861) was an African American barber in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. On September 6, 1861, Clarke was forcibly taken from the city jail in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, questioned, and lynched by a crowd of fifty to seventy-five Irishmen. Marshall Clarke, along with another fellow African American named James P. Shelton, had exchanged insults and blows with two Irishmen who accused them of bothering two white women on the street, and Shelton ended up fatally stabbing Irishman Darby Carney. Clarke was eventually hanged from a pile driver later that night. (en)
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| - George Marshall Clarke (1838 — 1861) was an African American barber in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. On September 6, 1861, Clarke was forcibly taken from the city jail in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, questioned, and lynched by a crowd of fifty to seventy-five Irishmen. Marshall Clarke, along with another fellow African American named James P. Shelton, had exchanged insults and blows with two Irishmen who accused them of bothering two white women on the street, and Shelton ended up fatally stabbing Irishman Darby Carney. Clarke was eventually hanged from a pile driver later that night. (en)
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