Person:Sibb Fields (3)

It is believed that Sibb Fields was lynched for stealing a pig. The hanging was in the Kiamichi River Valley near the Arkansas boarder in the late 1890s. The original source was his grand niece Freda G. Addison.

The southeastern counties of Little Dixie, formerly the Choctaw Nation and settled by southern whites after allotment, also endured mob violence. In the allotment of lands the Choctaw had attempted to exclude freedmen, and many fled the region. Overall, fifteen lynchings (two whites, seven blacks, five Indians, and one of unknown race) occurred there between 1885 and 1930. Of the fifteen, nine (two blacks, two whites, and five Indians) died in the 1892–1907 period, and five (four blacks and one of unknown race) in 1908–16. These incidents occurred despite the low ratio of black to white and despite a decline in black population. -- okhistory