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 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…
Monett has always been known as a nice, peaceful railroad town. However, in 1894, that was disrupted. There were five lynchings in twelve years near the turn of the century in this area, however, only one of these was in Monett. On June 28, 1894 on what seemed to be…
Here lie two criminals, lynched in Wichita Falls Foster Crawford 1862-1896 Elmer “Kid” Lewis 1877-1896 Whether right or wrong, no mercy was shown as the vengeance of this community was quickly delivered for the horrendous crime they committed. May God rest their souls….
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….
On October 30, 1898, a mob of white men lynched a young Black man named Manly McCauley, only 18 years old, a few miles west of Chapel Hill. Mr. McCauley lived and worked in the same area where he was born on the farm of a white couple named Milton…