Between 1865 and 1950, thousands of Black people were victims of lynching across the United States as white Southerners resisted equal rights for African Americans and sought to uphold white supremacy through intimidation and fatal violence. Lynching became the most public and notorious form of racial terrorism, including hanging, gunshot, burning, and mutilation, while white mobs often ignored the legal system, seized victims from custody, and killed them before crowds of spectators. State and federal officials largely tolerated these killings by failing to hold participants accountable, and many victims were targeted for resisting economic exploitation, allegedly violating social customs, engaging in interracial relationships, or being accused of crimes without evidence. At least 595 racial terror lynchings have been documented in Georgia between 1865 and 1950, including at least 36 in Fulton County. On September 4, 1889, in East Point, Georgia, a white mob abducted and lynched Warren Powell, a 14-year-old Black boy, after a white girl reported that a Black male had assaulted her earlier that afternoon. White men began hunting for the alleged assailant, found Warren, and took him to the local bailiff, who placed him in a jail secured by a single padlock. As the mob grew, 15 to 20 masked white men broke down the jail door with a hatchet around 10:00 pm, seized Warren despite his parents' pleas for his life, dragged him across several fields to an oak tree, and hanged him. The mob then returned to the jail unmasked, and Warren's body was found the next morning. Afterward, white men spread rumors that Black residents of East Point planned to retaliate, and white mobs used those rumors to justify dragging numerous Black men, women, and children from their homes and attacking them. Although a reward of $100 was offered for the arrest of those responsible, no evidence indicates that anyone involved in the racial terrorism in East Point was held accountable.