From the post-Reconstruction period into the early 20th century , whites lynched a total of five African Americans in Williamson County . They did not allow the legal system to prosecute these men , but conducted extra-judicial murder . Among the victims was 15-year-old Samuel Smith , an African American who was lynched in Nolensville in December 1924 . He was arrested there for shooting and wounding Ike Eastwood at his house , after Eastwood shot Smith 's uncle ; the grocer also shot and wounded Smith . Smith was taken for treatment to a hospital in Nashville . A group of masked men took him from the hospital and , with a larger mob , back 22 miles to Nolensville . There the mob hanged the youth near Eastwood 's house and shot him multiple times . Although the Nashville Chamber of Commerce offered a $ 5000 reward in the case , no one was convicted of Smith 's murder . On June 5 , 2017 , a plaque was installed in his memory at St. Anselm Episcopal Church in Nashville , Tennessee ; it memorialized two other local lynching victims as well
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Lynching of Samuel Smith
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