Between 1877 and 1950, thousands of African Americans were victims of lynching and racial violence in the United States, and Florida had one of the nation’s highest per capita lynching rates, with dozens of racial terror lynchings documented in Alachua County. During this era, the lynching of African Americans was used as racial terrorism to intimidate Black people and enforce racial hierarchy and segregation. After the Civil War, white people opposed to equal rights attacked and lynched Black women, men, and children for asserting their rights, leaving plantations, participating in politics, seeking economic independence, violating white social customs, being accused of crimes, or through random and arbitrary racial terror, while courts, law enforcement, and white officials in Newberry did little to protect Black people’s constitutional rights or hold participants accountable. In Alachua County, emancipated Black people built a rural farming community from Jonesville to Newberry with farms, churches, a school, and local businesses, but many white residents violently resisted racial equality and terrorized Black people to enforce Jim Crow segregation and racial hierarchy. On September 1, 1902, a mob of 300 white men seized two Black mine workers, Manny Price and Robert Scruggs, from law enforcement, hanged them, and riddled their bodies with bullets. On August 18 and 19, 1916, white mobs that included a state senator, a local sheriff, community leaders, and well-known citizens lynched six Black men and women from Jonesville after a Black farmer was accused of mortally wounding a Newberry constable: Jim Dennis was abducted from his home and shot to death, and Bert Dennis, Mary Dennis, Stella Young, Andrew McHenry, and Reverend Josh Baskin were hanged in Lynch Hammock. These killings are often called the Newberry Six lynchings, though oral history suggests that Dick Johnson and two unidentified Black victims were also lynched during that bloody weekend. During the racial terror of the Rosewood Massacre, a white mob abducted Abraham Wilson from jail on January 17, 1923, and also lynched him in Lynch Hammock. In none of these lynchings was anyone held accountable.