Between 1865 and 1950, thousands of Black people were victims of lynching in the United States as violent resistance to equal rights and an ideology of white supremacy fueled racial terrorism intended to intimidate Black people and uphold racial hierarchy. White mobs targeted Black people for perceived violations of social customs, resisting exploitation, interracial relationships, or after accusations of crimes even when no evidence tied them to the alleged offense, and they often abducted victims from jails, prisons, courtrooms, or police custody while law enforcement officers and elected officials tolerated or supported the violence and failed to hold mobs accountable. In North Carolina, at least 120 lynchings have been documented, including at least six in Chatham County. Between 1885 and 1921, white mobs in Chatham County lynched at least six Black people. On September 28, 1885, a white mob in Pittsboro lynched Jerry Finch, Harriet Finch, John Pattishall, and Lee Tyson after the unsolved murders of two white families; after months of terrorizing them, the mob stormed the jail, seized them, and hanged them from a tree despite their pleas of innocence, and newspapers later reported a lack of evidence against all of them. On January 11, 1899, a white mob lynched Henry Jones, a Black farmer in his mid-thirties, merely because he lived near a white woman who was found dead the night before. On September 18, 1921, a white mob lynched sixteen-year-old Eugene Daniel after he was falsely accused of assaulting a white girl; the mob took him five miles east to an area near Moore's bridge, hanged him with a chain, and repeatedly shot his body, and the next day at least 1,000 spectators came to view his remains. No participants were held accountable for lynching these Black men, women, and children.