In the predawn hours of July 10, 1897, an armed mob of white men brutally lynched Erastus Brown, a Black husband and father of two, near the Bourbeuse River Bridge in Union, Missouri. Mr. Brown was no more than 20 years old at the time of his death. On July…
Between 1898 and 1931, at least three Black men were victims of racial terror lynchings near this courthouse. On May 26, 1898, a mob of over 100 white people lynched Garfield King, a Black teenager who lived near present-day Allen, MD. Garfield was being held in the Salisbury Jail after…
The record of lynchings in Maryland from 1891-1906 May 13, 1891 – Asbury Green, Centerville May 17, 1892 – James Taylor, Chestertown June 8, 1893 – Isaac Kemp, Princess Anne October 20, 1894 – Stephen Williams, Prince George’s County March 16, 1895 – Marshall E. Price, Caroline County March…
In Franklin County, white mobs lynched at least six Black people between the end of the Civil War and 1950. Two of these victims were lynched here at the Singing Bridge. In the early morning hours of August 15, 1894, a white mob hanged a Black man named Marshall Boston…
On April 20, 1893, a mob of at least 50 white railroad workers lynched 19-year-old Dana Adams in Saline County near the Union Pacific depot. That morning, Mr. Adams and three other Black men were in the waiting room of the train station when a white worker ordered them to…
On July 20, 1891, Sam Pulliam, a Black man, was lynched by a mob of at least 60 White people. The mob formed to pursue him after the wife of a prominent White farmer accused him of assault while her husband was away from home. Fearful that he would face…