On January 4, 1870, a mob of at least 50 white men lynched a Black man named George Johnson in Atchison, Kansas. Five days prior, Mr. Johnson had accidentally injured a white man while hunting. In fear of the retaliatory violence often inflicted on Black people by white mobs, Mr….
On January 30, 1887, a mob of at least 35 white men seized a Black 18-year-old named Richard Wood from the county jail and lynched him. The mob brutally dragged Mr. Wood by a rope around his neck for over a mile and left his lifeless body in the middle…
On April 20, 1893, a mob of at least 50 white railroad workers lynched 19-year-old Dana Adams in Saline County near the Union Pacific depot. That morning, Mr. Adams and three other Black men were in the waiting room of the train station when a white worker ordered them to…
On June 10, 1882, three Black men – Isaac King, George Robertson, and Peter Vinegar- were lynched at this site by a mob of at least 100 white men. Mr. King and Mr. Robertson were living temporarily with the Vinegar family when they discovered a white man sexually assaulting Mr….
Beneath the wooden trestle which originally stood on the site of the railroad bridge north of here, lynch mobs hanged at least four persons in the wild days. In the wee hours of January 7, 1869, Luke Barnes, Lee Watkins and James Sponder, Black soldiers of the 38th U.S. Infantry,…