Lynching in America / 1906 Atlanta Race Massacre

Over four days in September 1906, white mobs attacked Black Atlantans across the city, killing dozens in one of Georgia's deadliest episodes of racial violence. This marker remembers the victims and the era of terror they endured.

Lynching in America / 1906 Atlanta Race Massacre is a historical marker in Atlanta, Fulton County, erected in 2022. It is one of 357 historical markers documented in Fulton County, among 643 historic sites cataloged across the county on Georgia Roam.

The site sits at 33.7573, -84.3842 near Atlanta. The nearest cataloged historic site is First Congregational Church United Church of Christ (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include National Medical Association: Medicine in the Civil Rights Movement, First Congregational Church, and Freeman Ford Building.

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