Georgia Anti-Lynching Memorial
In respectful memory of the thousands across America, denied justice by lynching; victims of hatred, prejudice, and ignorance. Between 1880-1946, ~570 Georgians were lynched….
The Hanging Tree
From a Sycamore near this spot, L.V. Grime and C.B. Hawley were lynched on Aug. 24, 1882 for the hold up – murder of Andrew Hall, Wells Fargo Packer, and Dr. S.T. Vail. The culprits had a fair hearing before JP Allen on Wednesday eve, and at 2 AM Thursday…
Lynching in America / Lynching in Bulloch County
From 1886 to 1911, white mobs lynched at least nine Black people in Bulloch County. Suspicion alone-even in the absence of evidence or due process-caused many white people to presume a Black person’s guilt. On July 15, 1886, a white mob abducted Jake Braswell following the alleged assault of a…
Mr. John Diggs-Dorsey (b. 1856-1860; d. 1880)
Mr. John Diggs-Dorsey, a Black man in his early twenties, liced and worked in Darnestown as a servant to James and Linnie Tschiffely. On July 25, 1880, Linnie Tschifely accused Diggs-Dorsey of rape and physical assault, a charge he denied. After a two-day manhunt, Diggs-Dorsey was brought to the county…
The Orion Anderson Story
On November 8, 1889, between 1 a.m. and 2 a.m., a 14-year-old African-American boy named Orion Anderson (1875-1889) was lynched at this site where the Leesburg freight depot was located along the Washington and Old Dominion (W&OD) Railroad. A week earlier, Orion had been arrested and taken to jail in…
The Lynching of William Taylor
On September 12, 1884, a mob of at least 400 young white men lynched a 25-year-old Black man named William Allen Taylor near this location beside the Trinity River. Weeks before the lynching, Mr. Taylor was arrested after being accused of robbing and assaulting a white woman. During this era…