Nov 14, 2023 | 1890-1899, EJI Marker, Tennessee
In the spring of 1892, one of the most violent public events in Nashville’s history occurred at this site. On April 24, 1892, two black men were accused of assaulting two white women near Goodlettsville. Henry Grizzard and Ephraim Grizzard, brothers, were arrested on suspicion, along with three other black…
Nov 14, 2023 | 1870-1879, EJI Marker, South Carolina
The devastating Union County Jail Raid massacre was one example of how racial violence was designed to terrorize the Black community during Reconstruction. In early 1871, white mobs abducted 12 Black men from the county jail on January 4 and February 12. These men, Captain J. Alexander Walker, Charner Gorden,…
Nov 14, 2023 | 1890-1899, EJI Marker, South Carolina
On the night of August 16, 1899, a white mob lynched an elderly African American man named Tom Keith after he was accused of falling asleep in the same room as white children. Mr. Keith, who was described in news reports as “old and trusted,” lived in the home of…
Nov 14, 2023 | 1880-1889, EJI Marker, South Carolina
Lynchings by white mobs continued for decades as a tool of racial terrorism to maintain white supremacy. On June 26, 1889, a white mob lynched Andrew McKnight in a Black church cemetery near Kelton, after he was accused of making inappropriate comments towards white women. In January of 1900, Rufus…
Nov 14, 2023 | 1910-1919, EJI Marker, South Carolina
In Abbeville on Saturday, October 21, 1916, a white mob lynched a black leader named Anthony Crawford for cursing a white man. A 56-year-old planter, “Grandpa” Crawford owned 427 acres of land, had 13 children, and helped establish a school, a church, and farms in the local black community. During…
Nov 14, 2023 | 1880-1889, EJI Marker, Ohio
Near this site on June 19, 1885. a mob of about 1.000 White people lynched Henry Howard, a Black man who had arrived in Coshocton the previous day to seek work in the mines. On the evening of June 18, reports emerged that two young. White women had been assaulted…