Between 1865 and 1950, at least 6,500 Black people were victims of lynchings in the United States, including at least 22 documented victims of racial terror lynching in Kansas. After the Civil War ended in 1865, emancipated Black people migrated to Kansas from Southern states seeking freedom and rights as citizens, but many white Kansans opposed equal rights and used intimidation and violent repression to maintain white economic, political, and social control. White lynch mobs often seized Black people from jails and police custody while law enforcement frequently failed to intervene, and this racial terror violence was intended to instill fear throughout the Black community while making accountability dangerous and legal recourse rare. In 1893, after the lynching of Dana Adams, his father sued the city of Salina for damages, but the city offered only $2 and failed to identify or prosecute those responsible. On April 20, 1893, a mob of at least 50 white railroad workers lynched nineteen-year-old Dana Adams in Saline County near the Union Pacific depot. That morning, Adams and three other Black men were in the train station waiting room when a white worker unjustifiably ordered them to leave, leading to an altercation. Adams was later taken into custody, and the white man accused him of attempted murder. In this era, accusations against Black people were rarely subjected to serious scrutiny, and allegations of Black-on-white violence regularly led to criminalization and racial terror violence. A rushed trial was held the same day without legal representation for Adams, and within hours he was sentenced to seven years in prison. Despite rumors of plans to lynch him, police placed Adams on a Santa Fe train to transport him to prison. At the station, a lynch mob disconnected the train car holding Adams, abducted him, dragged him handcuffed and pleading for his life to the Union Pacific depot, and hanged him from a telegraph pole. Several white men stripped the clothes from his body as souvenirs, and although more than 200 spectators were present, no one was held accountable.