Massacres & mob attacks
Atlanta Massacre of 1906
22-24 September 1906Decatur Street and the Brownsville neighbourhood, Atlanta, GA
After a campaign season built on invented reports of Black assaults, white mobs attacked Black Atlantans for three days, killing at least 25 people and accelerating the removal of Black voting rights in Georgia.
- People killed
- 25–40
The marker sits at the centre of the place named, because the records do not fix a single spot.