In mid-August, 1908, white Springfield residents lynched two African Americans during what became known as the Springfield Race Riot. The mob action was one of many such incidents in the United States which claimed the lives of thousands of African Americans between the Civil War and World War II. The…
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In 1839 the Town of Leesburg acquired from Benjamin Shreve Sr. a half-acre tract of land on the turnpike just east of the town limits. Its purpose was to serve as a public cemetery for indigent citizens. The town’s more prosperous residents were usually buried in church cemeteries. As both…
Mobs of white people brutally lynched two Black men, Louis Senegal and Antoine Domingue, within an 11-year period in Carencro, Louisiana. On March 24, 1896, 500 white men abducted Mr. Senegal, who was also referred to as Louis Sinclair, from the Carencro jail and hanged him to death. Police left…
William C. Clifton worked as a cowpuncher on the Diamond L Ranch, where he acquired the nickname “Diamond L Slim.” On March 15, 1903, he shot and killed John W. and Luella Foster Church in the Churches’ homestead cabin on Porcupine Creek. Slim was quarreling with the Churches over money…
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….