Historical Marker

Lynching in America / The Lynching of Porter Turner

Atlanta · DeKalb County · Erected 2021

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The Story

In August 1945, Porter Turner, a Black Atlanta taxi driver, was stabbed to death; an informant later tied his killing to a Klan faction, yet no one was ever charged for this racial-terror lynching.

About this site

Lynching in America / The Lynching of Porter Turner is a historical marker in Atlanta, DeKalb County, erected in 2021. It is one of 98 historical markers documented in DeKalb County, among 143 historic sites cataloged across the county on Georgia Roam.

The site sits at 33.7746, -84.3419 near Atlanta. The nearest cataloged historic site is Alpha Delta Pi (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include The March to the Sea, Sweeny's Division Encamped, and Lophorhothon atopus.

This record is drawn from Georgia historical-marker records. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.

📍 33.7746, -84.3419 · Atlanta, DeKalb County

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