Preston Porter

Preston John Porter Jr. was a black boy who was abducted and lynched by a mob near Limon, Colorado, United States. Porter had arrived in Colorado from Lawrence, Kansas, with his father and brother in 1900; the three were in Denver on November 11, 1900, when they were stopped, questioned, and arrested on suspicion of the murder of an 11-year-old white girl which had taken place eight days prior. After four days of torture in a sweatbox, the authorities got Porter to confess and transported him by train to the county jail in Hugo, Colorado, despite numerous publications predicting that the train would be stopped and Porter lynched. As predicted, a mob abducted Porter in Limon; several hours later, they chained him to a steel rail and burned him alive. There were no charges brought against any of the participants, and nobody was ever held accountable for the lynching.