Virginia Lynching Victims Memorial

Share

Explore Our Galleries

A man stands in front of the Djingareyber mosque on February 4, 2016 in Timbuktu, central Mali. 
Mali's fabled city of Timbuktu on February 4 celebrated the recovery of its historic mausoleums, destroyed during an Islamist takeover of northern Mali in 2012 and rebuilt thanks to UN cultural agency UNESCO.
TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY SEBASTIEN RIEUSSEC / AFP / SÉBASTIEN RIEUSSEC
African Peoples Before Captivity
Shackles from Slave Ship Henrietta Marie
Kidnapped: The Middle Passage
Enslaved family picking cotton
Nearly Three Centuries Of Enslavement
Image of the first black members of Congress
Reconstruction: A Brief Glimpse of Freedom
The Lynching of Laura Nelson_May_1911 200x200
One Hundred Years of Jim Crow
Civil Rights protest in Alabama
I Am Somebody! The Struggle for Justice
Black Lives Matter movement
NOW: Free At Last?
#15-Beitler photo best TF reduced size
Memorial to the Victims of Lynching
hands raised black background
The Freedom-Lovers’ Roll Call Wall
Frozen custard in Milwaukee's Bronzeville
Special Exhibits
Dr. James Cameron
Portraiture of Resistance

Breaking News!

Today's news and culture by Black and other reporters in the Black and mainstream media.

Ways to Support ABHM?

Name Murdered In Date
Unknown NegroHalifax, VAMarch 22, 1901
Unknown NegroNewport News, VAJune 11, 1902
Unknown NegroRichmond, VAAugust 8, 1912
Unknown NegroHopeful, VADecember 9, 1915
Anderson, OwenLeesburg, VANovember 8, 1889
Bailey, ScottHalifax, VAApril 23, 1889
Bland, RobertPetersburg, VANovember 23, 1889
Carter, JamesAmherst, VAApril 6, 1902
Clark, WalterDanville, VAOctober 13, 1917
Craven, CharlesLeesburg, VAJuly 31, 1902
Dudley, AndrewGreenfield, VAAugust 4, 1904
Fletcher, MagruderTasley, VAMarch 14, 1889
Forbes, JohnPetersburg, VAJune 11, 1889
Gam, WileyToms Brook, VAJune 6, 1902
Bland, RobertBluefield, VASeptember 16, 1889
Henderson, HenryIngram, VAFebruary 20, 1905
James, John HenryCharlottesville, VAJuly 12, 1898
Moseley, ElmerSussex County, VAJanuary 14, 1904
Neal, MachWarren, VANovember 30, 1910
Page, WilliamLilian, VAAugust 17, 1917
Roland, MartinAbingdon, VAApril 3, 1889
Thompson, AllieCulpepper County, VANovember 24, 1918
WalkerLawrenceville, VAJuly 1, 1901
WhiteheadLocality Unknown, VAMay 19, 1904

Search By State