Following the Civil War, violent resistance to rights for African Americans, a need for cheap labor, and an ideology of white supremacy led to fatal violence against Black women, men, and children. Between 1877 and 1950, thousands of Black people in the United States were victims of racial terror lynching, the most public and notorious form of racial terrorism and violence, used to intimidate Black people and enforce racial hierarchy and segregation. Many African Americans were lynched after accusations of violating social customs, engaging in interracial relationships, or committing crimes, even when there was no evidence, as hostile suspicion and a presumption of guilt left them vulnerable to mob violence. White mobs often ignored the legal system and seized victims from jails, prisons, courtrooms, or police custody without fear of punishment, and these lynchings often included burnings and mutilation before crowds numbering in the thousands. In many cases victims' names were not recorded, reflecting indifference to these injustices, and at least 592 racial terror lynchings have been documented in Georgia. In DeKalb County, racial terror lynchings by white mobs between 1877 and 1950 created a legacy of violence and injustice. On July 26, 1887, Reuben Hudson, Jr., a black man riding a Georgia Railroad train, was said by a conductor to resemble a man accused of assaulting a white woman in Redan; after local officers took him into custody and sent him to Redan the next day, a mob of 100 white men seized and hanged him from a tree. On April 3, 1892, a white mob from Lithonia pursued two black men accused of assaulting a white girl; newspaper coverage was sparse and did not include their names, and when the mob returned without them, newspapers reported that it was generally understood they were lynched. On August 21, 1945, Porter Turner, a black taxi driver who served white passengers, was found stabbed to death on a physician's lawn in Druid Hills; officials assumed robbery was the motive, but almost a year later an informant revealed that members of the Klavalier Klub, a branch of the Georgia Ku Klux Klan, were responsible. These lynchings terrorized the black community, and the perpetrators were not held accountable.