James Hampton was a Black man born on May 29, 1903, in Lexington, Kentucky, to Cicero Hampton and Jennie Bentley. He had four brothers and “three or four” sisters. For eight years prior to his arrival in Massachusetts, he lived in Milwaukee. After leaving school at 16, he worked on farms as a general laborer.
Mr. Hampton was sentenced to the Bridgewater State Farm on May 8, 1933, and transferred to Norfolk Prison Camp on January 27, 1934. He died at the Norfolk Prison Camp on April 13, 1934, at 7:30 a.m. from pulmonary tuberculosis. He was 30 years old.
