When was Isadore Banks lynched?
“You might not know it yet, but the story of Isadore Banks — a black farmer lynched in Arkansas in 1954 — is a vital part of the history you're currently living through.
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Who was Isadore Banks?
In the middle of the last century, in a small town called Marion on the Arkansas Delta, lived a man named Isadore Banks. “ [He was] a good man, a big tall man, a strong man, and he was a very kind man,” recalls one of the town’s elderly residents. Banks owned 1,000 acres of farmland, plus a trucking business, a café and a grocery store, and was one of the richest men in the county. He was also African-American and, one night in 1954, he was lynched.
What did Soledad O'Brien control in Marion?
In Marion, he controlled tax, voting, public records and the local newspaper. It’s worth noting that though Goodwin lived modestly, when his widow died in 1999 she left a bequest of $7m to her local Baptist church. Racial tension is at the heart of the Luminary series Murder on the Towpath with Soledad O’Brien.
Season 1 (2020)
Grandparents: Elias Banks, a white land-owner living in Rome Georgia, and an African American woman named Nancy Banks, who was formerly enslaved. They had a son, named John who was Isadore’s father. Elias Banks died in 1878. Parents: John Banks and Annie Butler. Annie was African American and believed to be part Native American (Cherokee).
Release and Reception
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Credits
Additional Research: Lisa John Rogers, Jay W. Driskell, Carmen White, Kriska Desir, and Babette Thomas
What podcast covered the case of Isadore Banks?
His family continues to search for answers about this brutal crime. In 2020, the ten-episode podcast Unfinished: Deep South, which covered the case of Isadore Banks, was released. “Burned, Tied Body of a Negro is Found in Marion Vicinity.”. Arkansas Gazette, June 10, 1954, p. 1B.
When did Isadore Banks vanish?
Isadore Banks (Murder of) Isadore Banks, a fifty-nine-year-old prominent African-American landowner, disappeared on June 4, 1954. Banks’s wife, Alice, last saw him as he left the house with the intention of paying his farmhands. On or about June 8, 1954, Banks’s truck was discovered in a wooded property just outside of Marion (Crittenden County) ...
What did banks do to help black farmers?
Banks helped other black farmers with loans to buy seeds and farm equipment and supported the local black school with supplies. A number of theories have emerged to explain the motive behind the 1954 murder.
Where was the Banks murder?
Banks’s murder, one of Arkansas’s most notorious cold cases of the civil rights era, came on the heels of a wave of lynchings in Vrendenburg and Birmingham, Alabama; Cleveland, Ohio; and Charleston, South Carolina.
Who is the NAACP?
Bates, a prominent civil rights advocate in Arkansas, and the local branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP) reached out to help in the investigation but to no avail.