Between 1877 and 1950, racial terror lynching claimed the lives of thousands of African Americans and created a legacy of injustice that still endures. After the Civil War and the premature end of Reconstruction, white Southerners sought to uphold white supremacy through intimidation and fatal violence that reinforced racial subordination and segregation. Lynching became the most public and notorious form of racial terrorism, and state and federal officials largely tolerated these lawless killings of Black women, men, and children by failing to hold white mobs accountable. Many African Americans were lynched for resisting economic exploitation, violating perceived social customs, engaging in interracial relationships, or being accused of crimes even when no evidence tied them to any offense. At least 492 racial terror lynchings have been documented in Arkansas. In Little Rock, on May 4, 1927, a mob of armed white men seized 22-year-old John Carter, hanged him from a telephone pole, shot his body repeatedly in downtown, dragged his corpse through the streets past city hall and the police station, and took it to the heart of the city’s African American community at 9th and Broadway. There the mob, which had grown to thousands, ransacked nearby Black businesses and churches for fuel, built a bonfire in the street, and burned Carter’s mutilated body before spectators. The mob formed after rumors that a white woman and her daughter had been assaulted west of downtown, and despite the absence of evidence against Carter, no one was ever held accountable for the lynching or the terror and destruction inflicted on Little Rock’s Black community.