Marker Text: Late on the night of October 26, 1924, a mob of 200 masked white men from Floyd County kidnapped and brutally lynched a Black man named Frederick “Kid” Shannon in Wayland. Mr. Shannon, a 28-year-old musician, had been arrested and jailed in Wayland after being accused of killing a white man following a monetary dispute. During this era of racial terror, mere suggestions of Black-on-white violence regularly provoked mob violence and lynching before any formal investigation took place. The night before Mr. Shannon was to have had a preliminary hearing, the white mob used sledgehammers and drills to break into the jail and abduct him. None of the 15 officers assigned to protect Mr. Shannon attempted to interfere with the kidnapping. It was not uncommon for lynch mobs to seize their victims from jails, prisons, courtrooms, or out of police hands, and though police were armed and charged with protecting the people in their custody, they almost never used force to resist white lynch mobs intent on killing Black people. The mob took Mr. Shannon into the street and shot him at least 18 times before leaving him for dead. Mr. Shannon died from the wounds shortly after. Local officials claimed they could not determine the identities of any of the hundreds of mob members, and no one was ever held accountable for lynching Frederick Shannon.