Thousands of African Americans were victims of lynching and racial violence in the United States between the Civil War and World War II. The lynching of African Americans during this era was a form of racial terrorism used to intimidate black people and enforce racial hierarchy and segregation. Lynching was most prevalent in the South. Community leaders who spoke out against this racial terror were themselves often targeted by violent mobs. Millions of African Americans fled the South to escape the climate of terror and trauma created by these acts of violence. Of the more than 237 documented racial terror lynchings that took place in Tennessee between 1877 and 1950, at least three took place in Madison County. This marker was erected in 2020 by Jackson-Madison County Community Remembrance Project and Equal Justice Initiative.