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Lynching in America Historical Markers
As part of the Equal Justice Initiative (eji.org) efforts to help towns, cities, and states confront and recover from tragic histories of racial violence and terrorism, it is joining with communities to install historical markers in communities where the history of lynching is documented. Includes similar Community Remembrance Project markers by the EJI.
By Mark Hilton, October 2, 2022
The Lynching of Rueben Sims Marker
1 ► Alabama, Baldwin County, Bay Minette — Lynching in America / The Lynching of Rueben Sims Community Remembrance Project —  |
| 2 ► Alabama, Dallas County, Selma — Lynching in America / Lynching in Selma Community Remembrance Project — |
| 3 ► Alabama, Etowah County, Gadsden — Lynching in America / The Lynching of Bunk Richardson Community Remembrance Project — |
| 4 ► Alabama, Jefferson County, Birmingham — Racial Terrorism and Convict Leasing / Racial Violence at Brookside Mines Community Remembrance Project — |
| 5 ► Alabama, Jefferson County, Brighton — Lynching In America / The Lynching of William Miller Community Remembrance Project — |
| 6 ► Alabama, Jefferson County, Irondale — Racial Terrorism and Criminal Justice / Lynching in Irondale Community Remembrance Project — |
| 7 ► Alabama, Lee County, Opelika — Lynching in America / Lynching in Lee County Community Remembrance Project — |
| 8 ► Alabama, Lowndes County, Hayneville — Lynching in America / The Courthouse Lynching of Theo Calloway Community Remembrance Project — |
| 9 ► Alabama, Lowndes County, Mt. Carmel — Lynching in America / Lynching in Letohatchee Community Remembrance Project — |
| 10 ► Alabama, Lowndes County, Mt. Willing — Enslavement & Racial Terror / Lynching Targeting Black Sharecroppers Community Remembrance Project — |
| 11 ► Alabama, Mobile County, Mobile — Lynching in America / The Lynching of Richard Robertson Community Remembrance Project — |
| 12 ► Alabama, Shelby County, Montevallo — Lynching in America / Lynching in Montevallo Community Remembrance Project — |
| 13 ► Alabama, Tuscaloosa County, Tuscaloosa — Lynching in America / Lynching in Tuscaloosa County Community Remembrance Project — |
| 14 ► Arkansas, Pulaski County, Little Rock, Boyle Park — Lynching in America / Lynching in Little Rock Community Remembrance Project — |
| 15 ► Arkansas, Pulaski County, North Little Rock — Lynching in America / The Lynching of Homer G. Blackwell Community Remembrance Project — |
| 16 ► Arkansas, Washington County, Fayetteville — Lynching in America / Racial Terrorism in Washington County In Memory of Aaron, Anthony, and Randall Community Remembrance Project — |
| 17 ► Colorado, Denver County, Denver, Central — Lynching in America / The Lynching of Preston Porter, Jr. Community Remembrance Project — |
| 18 ► Florida, Alachua County, Gainesville — Lynching in America / Lynching in Gainesville Community Remembrance Project — |
| 19 ► Florida, Alachua County, Gainesville — Lynching in America / Reconstruction-Era Lynchings in Gainesville Community Remembrance Project — |
| 20 ► Florida, Alachua County, Newberry — Lynching in America / Racial Terror Lynchings in Newberry Community Remembrance Project — |
| 21 ► Florida, Duval County, Jacksonville, Brentwood — Lynching in America / The Lynching of Bowman Cook and John Morine Community Remembrance Project — |
| 22 ► Florida, Hillsborough County, Tampa — Lynching in America / The Lynching of Robert Johnson Community Remembrance Project — |
| 23 ► Florida, Leon County, Tallahassee, Cascades Park — Lynching in America / Lynching In Leon County Community Remembrance Project — |
| 24 ► Florida, Orange County, Orlando — Lynching of July Perry / Racial Violence in America November 3, 1920 Community Remembrance Project — |
| 25 ► Florida, Orange County, Orlando, Parramore — The Lynching of Arthur Henry / Racial Violence in America Community Remembrance Project — |
| 26 ► Florida, Pinellas County, St. Petersburg — Lynching in America / The Lynching of John Evans Community Remembrance Project — |
| 27 ► Florida, St. Johns County, St. Augustine — The Lynching of Isaac Barrett / Racial Violence in America Community Remembrance Project — |
| 28 ► Georgia, DeKalb County, Atlanta, Druid Hills — Lynching in America / The Lynching of Porter Turner Community Remembrance Project — |
| 29 ► Georgia, DeKalb County, Decatur, Downtown Decatur — Lynching in America / Lynching in DeKalb County Community Remembrance Project — |
| 30 ► Georgia, DeKalb County, Lithonia — Lynching in America / Mob Violence in Lithonia Community Remembrance Project Reported missing |
| 31 ► Georgia, Forsyth County, Cumming — Lynching in America / Lynching in Forsyth County Community Remembrance Project — |
| 32 ► Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, Peachtree Center — Lynching in America / 1906 Atlanta Race Massacre Community Remembrance Project — |
| 33 ► Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, Pittsburgh — Lynching in America / The Lynching of Dennis Hubert Community Remembrance Project — |
| 34 ► Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, South Atlanta — The History of Brownsville / Brownsville and the 1906 Atlanta Race Massacre Community Remembrance Project — |
| 35 ► Georgia, Fulton County, East Point — Lynching in America / The Lynching of Warren Powell Community Remembrance Project — |
| 36 ► Georgia, Fulton County, East Point, Conley Hills — Lynching in America / The Lynching of Zeb Long Community Remembrance Project — |
| 37 ► Georgia, Fulton County, Roswell — Lynching in America / Lynching of Mack Henry Brown Community Remembrance Project — |
| 38 ► Georgia, Gwinnett County, Lawrenceville — Lynching in America / Lynching of Charles Hale Community Remembrance Project — |
| 39 ► Georgia, Troup County, LaGrange — Lynching in America / Raising a Voice Against Racial Violence Community Remembrance Project — |
| 40 ► Georgia, Walker County, LaFayette — The Lynching of Henry White / Racial Injustice in America Community Remembrance Project — |
| 41 ► Indiana, Vigo County, Terre Haute, East Bank — Lynching in America / Facing Injustice Lynching of George Ward in Vigo County Community Remembrance Project — |
| 42 ► Kentucky, Shelby County, Shelbyville — Lynching in America / Lynching of Sam Pulliam Community Remembrance Project — |
| 43 ► Kentucky, Shelby County, Shelbyville — Lynching in Shelbyville Community Remembrance Project — |
| 44 ► Kentucky, Shelby County, Shelbyville — Reconstruction in America / Lynching of Reuben Dennis Community Remembrance Project — |
| 45 ► Louisiana, Orleans Parish, New Orleans, Central City — Mass Lynching in New Orleans / Racial Violence in America Community Remembrance Project — |
| 46 ► Maryland, Allegany County, Cumberland — Lynching in America / Lynching in Allegany County Community Remembrance Project — |
| 47 ► Maryland, Anne Arundel County, Severna Park — Lynching in America / Lynching in Anne Arundel County Community Remembrance Project — |
| 48 ► Maryland, Baltimore County, Towson — Lynching in America / Lynching of Howard Cooper Community Remembrance Project — |
| 49 ► Maryland, St. Mary's County, Leonardtown — Lynching in America / Lynching of Benjamin Hance Community Remembrance Project — |
| 50 ► Maryland, Wicomico County, Salisbury — Lynching in America / Lynching in Wicomico County Community Remembrance Project — |
| 51 ► Minnesota, Saint Louis County, Duluth, Downtown - Waterfront — Lynching in America / Lynching in Duluth Community Remembrance Project — |
| 52 ► Mississippi, Lafayette County, Oxford — Lynching in America / Lynching in Lafayette County Community Remembrance Project — |
| 53 ► Mississippi, Lafayette County, Oxford — Lynching in America / The Lynching of Elwood Higginbottom Community Remembrance Project — |
| 54 ► Mississippi, Newton County, Hickory — Lynching in America / Lynching in Newton County Community Remembrance Project — |
| 55 ► Missouri, Franklin County, Union — Lynching in America / Lynching of Erastus Brown Community Remembrance Project — |
| 56 ► Missouri, Greene County, Springfield, Downtown Springfield — Lynching in America / The Lynchings of Horace B. Duncan, Fred Coker and William Allen Community Remembrance Project — |
| 57 ► Missouri, Jackson County, Kansas City, Quality Hill — Lynching in America / Lynching of Levi Harrington Community Remembrance Project — |
| 58 ► North Carolina, Buncombe County, Asheville — Lynching in America / The Lynching of Bob Brackett Community Remembrance Project — |
| 59 ► North Carolina, Buncombe County, Asheville — Lynching in America / The Lynching of Hezekiah Rankin Community Remembrance Project — |
| 60 ► North Carolina, Buncombe County, Asheville — Lynching in America / The Lynching of John Humphries Community Remembrance Project — |
| 61 ► North Carolina, Chatham County, Pittsboro — Lynching in America / Lynching in Chatham County — |
| 62 ► North Carolina, Rowan County, Salisbury — Lynching in America / Lynching of African Americans in Rowan County Community Remembrance Project — |
| 63 ► Ohio, Athens County, Athens — Lynching in America / Lynching of Christopher Davis Community Remembrance Project — |
| 64 ► Ohio, Butler County, Oxford — Lynching in America / Lynchings In Oxford, OH Community Remembrance Project — |
| 65 ► Ohio, Coshocton County, Coshocton — Lynching in America / The Lynching of Henry Howard Community Remembrance Project — |
| 66 ► Oklahoma, Tulsa County, Tulsa — Lynching in America / The 1921 Tulsa Massacre Community Remembrance Project — |
| 67 ► Oregon, Coos County, Coos Bay — Lynching in America / Lynching in Coos County Community Remembrance Project — |
| 68 ► South Carolina, Abbeville County, Abbeville — The Lynching of Anthony Crawford / Racial Violence in South Carolina Community Remembrance Project — |
| 69 ► South Carolina, Anderson County, Anderson — Lynching in America / Lynching in Anderson County — |
| 70 ► South Carolina, Greenville County, Greenville — Lynching in America / The Lynching of Tom Keith Community Remembrance Project — |
| 71 ► South Carolina, Greenwood County, Greenwood — Lynching in America / The Phoenix Massacre Community Remembrance Project — |
| 72 ► South Carolina, Union County, Union — Lynching in America / Lynching in Union County after 1877 Community Remembrance Project — |
| 73 ► South Carolina, Union County, Union — Reconstruction Era Lynchings in Union County / Union County Jail Raid Massacre Community Remembrance Project — |
| 74 ► Tennessee, Davidson County, Brentwood, Antioch — 238 — Racial Terror Lynchings in America / Lynching of Samuel Smith Reported missing |
| 75 ► Tennessee, Davidson County, Nashville, Downtown — Lynching in America / The Lynchings of Henry and Ephraim Grizzard Community Remembrance Project — |
| 76 ► Tennessee, Davidson County, Nashville, Downtown — Post-Emancipation Violence in America / Lynching and the Subversion of Legal Rights Community Remembrance Project — |
| 77 ► Tennessee, Madison County, Jackson — Lynching in America / Lynching in Madison County Community Remembrance Project — |
| 78 ► Texas, Dallas County, Dallas, Main Street District — Lynching in America / The Lynching of Allen Brooks Community Remembrance Project — |
| 79 ► Texas, Shelby County, Center — Racial Terror Lynchings / The Lynching of Lige Daniels Community Remembrance Project — |
| 80 ► Texas, Tarrant County, Fort Worth, Rock Island/Samuels Ave. — Racial Terror Lynching in America / Racial Terror Lynching of Mr. Fred Rouse Community Remembrance Project — |
| 81 ► Texas, Travis County, Austin, Central East Austin — Lynching in America / Lynching in Travis County Community Remembrance Project — |
| 82 ► Virginia, Charlottesville, North Downtown — Lynching in America / Lynching of John Henry James Community Remembrance Project — |
| 83 ► Virginia, Roanoke, Old Southwest — Lynching in America / The Lynching of Thomas Smith Community Remembrance Project — |