Mr. John Diggs-Dorsey, a Black man in his early twenties, liced and worked in Darnestown as a servant to James and Linnie Tschiffely. On July 25, 1880, Linnie Tschifely accused Diggs-Dorsey of rape and physical assault, a charge he denied. After a two-day manhunt, Diggs-Dorsey was brought to the county…
Mr. Sidney Randolph, a Black Georgia native in his mid-twenties, was lynched in Rockville on July 4, 1896, allegedly by a group of white men from Montgomery County. Randolph was suspected of attacking the Buxton family of Gaithersburg and killing one family member in May 1896. Detectives were brought in…
Black U.S. Army soldier shot nearby in 1944 for resisting Jim Crow laws on a bus. Aftermath of killing helped revitalize North Carolina’s NAACP….
In 1898 a building here was the scene of a lynching that sparked outrage across the nation. Frazier Baker, an African American who had recently been postmaster of Effingham, was appointed postmaster of Lake City in 1897. Whites who resented Baker harassed him, even burning the post office in an…
Milwaukee’s only recorded lynching occurred on this block on September 8, 1861. African-American residents George Marshall Clark and James Shelton were imprisoned on September 7 after a fight the previous evening during which Shelton fatally stabbed Darby Carney, owner of a popular Third Ward saloon. After Carney died, a mob…
A “Public Prison” for the Enslaved. Long before a lynch mob abducted Benjamin Thomas from the Alexandria jail, this site was one of racial oppression, particularly due to its connection to slavery. Within a decade of Congress authorizing $10,000 to build this jail, the American Anti-Slavery Society featured it in…