On the evening of June 15, 1930, a mob of seven white men lynched a young Black man named Dennis Hubert on the playground of Atlanta’s segregated Crogman School for Black children. Dennis Hubert was 18 years old and a Divinity School student in his sophomore year at Morehouse College…
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…
From 1886 to 1911, white mobs lynched at least nine Black people in Bulloch County. Suspicion alone-even in the absence of evidence or due process-caused many white people to presume a Black person’s guilt. On July 15, 1886, a white mob abducted Jake Braswell following the alleged assault of a…
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…
From November 9-14, 1898, white mobs in Phoenix lynched at least eight Black men and one Black woman and terrorized Black residents. The November 8 general election was the first since the enactment of the 1895 state constitution, which effectively barred Black people from voting. That morning at the local…
On November 16, 1933, a white mob lynched an African American man named George Green in his home near this site off North Adams Street in Taylors for challenging a wrongful eviction. A farm laborer in his sixties, Mr. Green lived with his wife, Mary Green, in a sharecropper’s dwelling…