Late on the night of October 26, 1924, a mob of 200 masked white men from Floyd County kidnapped and brutally lynched a Black man named Frederick “Kid” Shannon in Wayland. Mr. Shannon, a 28-year-old musician, had been arrested and jailed in Wayland after being accused of killing a white…
On March 16, 1922, George Tompkins, a young Black man, was brutally lynched in Riverside Park in Indianapolis. Mr. Tompkins migrated to the city two years prior from Frankfort, Kentucky, and earned a living working in a glass factory. In the afternoon of March 16, Mr. Tompkins’s body was discovered…
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 Tuesday, December 6, 1921, Mr. Fred Rouse, an African-American husband, father of three, and non-union butcher for Swift & Co., was attacked by white union strikers and agitators in the Niles City Stockyards (now part of Fort Worth). Mr. Rouse sustained stab wounds and broken bones. His skull was…
On August 2, 1920, Lige Daniels, an African American man, was confined inside the county jail in Center, Texas awaiting trial. News of his arrest spread quickly through Shelby County and the state. Mr. Daniels was accused of killing a white woman during a time when deep racial hostility burdened…
Shortly after midnight on Friday, November 27, 1925, three white men abducted a 35-year-old Black man named Arthur Henry from his bed at Orange General Hospital. Nearly two weeks later, Mr. Henry’s lifeless body was found in the unincorporated community of Conway, shot through the heart. Hours before his abduction,…