On June 13, 1891, a mob of white people brutally lynched a 20-year-old Black man named Robert Clark, in a wooded area in Bristol, Virginia, known as Lindsey’s Grove believed to be a quarter mile south of here. The mob, numbering as many as 3,000 people, hanged Mr. Clark from…
On November 1, 1868, a mob of white men brutally lynched a Black man named Moses Smith in his home in Gordon, a farming community in northern Alachua County. Five white men armed with rifles rode up to Mr. Sith’s cabin, shot at him through the cracks in the walls,…
On Friday, June 16, 1911, a mob of at least 50 white men abducted a Black man named William Bradford from police custody and lynched him near Hickory, Mississippi. The mob riddled Mr. Bradford’s lifeless body with bullets for sport and left it to hang by the roadside – a…
On March 21, 1890, a white mob lynched a 16-year-old Black boy named Robert Mosley near Meridianville. Prior to this death, Robert earned a living working as a farm laborer. On March 20, a white woman related to Robert’s employer accused him of sexual impropriety. News of the unscrutinized accusation…
On November 5, 1918, George Taylor, a Black man, was brutally lynched by a mob of 300 white people near Rolesville. A week prior, a white woman reported being assaulted, and officers arrested Mr. Taylor on the morning of November 5 despite lacking any evidence tying him to the alleged…
On July 8, 1860, the temperature in Dallas reached 115 degrees. A combustible fire beginning outside of W.W. Peak and Brothers drugstore destroyed most of downtown. At the time, national tensions ran high over the right to enslave human beings. Many were driven by suspicion of Northern abolitionists and a…