John Carter Lynching

The lynching of African American John Carter and a portion of the lynch mob in Little Rock (Pulaski County); May 1927.

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Young African-American man hanging from a pole with white men in hats standing around him

Courtesy of the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, Central Arkansas Library System

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