The Life and Death of Wyatt Outlaw

07/02/2021

https://wyattoutlaw.wordpress.com/2021/07/02/in-a-small-town-a-battle-for-racial-justice-confronts-a-bloody-past-and-an-uncertain-future/

This story was originally published by Propublica by Carli Brosseau, The News & Observer, video by Julia Wall, The News & Observer ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsr…

12/01/2020

https://wyattoutlaw.wordpress.com/2020/11/30/the-buckley-report-remembering-wyatt-outlaw/

Bob Buckley of Fox 8 WGHP News segment on Wyatt Outlaw…

07/14/2020

A website dedicated to telling the story of Wyatt Outlaw is now live at

Wyatt Outlaw Town Constable and victim of lynching by local K*K members. Outlaw was torn from his home and family in the middle of the night and hanged in the Court Square of Graham, North Carolina. The site of his lynching is now a small city park sitting in the shadow of the Historic Alamance…

07/14/2020

In August 2015, the local Times News featured an article by local historian Walter Boyd on The Life and Tragic Death of Wyatt Outlaw following a suggestion that a statue or marker commemorating him…

07/14/2020

From the Officer Down Memorial Page:”Constable Wyatt Outlaw was lynched by members of a K*K-like group known as the White Brotherhood in retaliation for a prior incident in which members of t…

07/14/2020

The Lynching of Wyatt Outlaw is noted in the Red Record, a site which documents lynchings in the American South. From the Red Record website: “The title, A Red Record, is drawn from Ida B. We…

07/14/2020

Wyatt Outlaw was a prominent African-American Republican in Alamance County who served as a Constable and Town Commissioner in Graham, North Carolina. Outlaw became a target of the Ku Klux Klan and…

07/14/2020

https://wyattoutlaw.wordpress.com/2020/06/24/a-delicate-matter-wyatt-outlaw-and-the-kirk-holden-war

July 8, 1870, Republican Governor William Holden declared Alamance and Caswell Counties to be in a state of insurrection in the wake of the Ku Klux Klan’s use of murder and intimidation again…

07/14/2020

On July 1, 2020, protesters aligned with the Black Lives Matter movement gathered in Sesquicentennial Park in the northwest corner of Court Square in Graham, North Carolina – the site where W…

06/25/2020

https://wyattoutlaw.wordpress.com/2020/06/25/reflections-and-images/

In the middle of the night, my wife and I went on a 3+ mile walk to downtown Graham stopping by the Alamance County Fallen Heroes Memorial to see if Wyatt Outlaw’s name was recorded among the…