On November 16, 1900, a white mob abducted 15-year-old African American teenager named Preston Porter Jr. and lynched him near Limon, Colorado in Lincoln County. At least 300 people attended the public spectacle lynching of Preston, who was abandoned by state officials and law enforcement. Preston, along with his father…
On July 7, 1856, a white mob from present-day Elkins, Arkansas, kidnapped and lynched Anthony, a Black man, and Aaron, a Black teenager, after they were put on trial at the Washington County Courthouse in the death of James Boone, who enslaved them. Anthony was acquitted and Aaron was released…
On October 7 1906, a white mob lynched a black restaurant owner named Homer G. Blackwell in Argenta, which is today North Little Rock. About three weeks earlier on September 12 and 13, two black men were shot and killed after fighting with white men. Failure to hold the white…
On May 4, 1927, a mob of armed white men captured a 22-year-old Black man named John Carter, hanged him from a telephone pole, and riddled his body with bullets in downtown Little Rock. Afterward, in a caravan of cars, the mob dragged Mr. Carter’s corpse through the streets of…
In early 1900, a white mob lynched a black man in Letohatchee, Alabama, without investigation or trial, after he was accused of killing a white man. Lawless killings of black people were common at the time, and allegations against black people were rarely subject to scrutiny. After the lynching, a…
On April 19, 1904, Reuben Sims, a Black man, was lynched by a white mob in Little River, Alabama. Beginning on April 18, the mob terrorized local Black residents in a manhunt for Black men after a white man was found dead. Mr. Sims was seized and whipped three times…