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…