In the post-Reconstruction era and the early 20th century, white violence against African Americans increased in an effort to assert dominance. Five African Americans were lynched by white mobs in Williamson County.Lynching in America/ Supplement: Lynchings by County , Equal Justice Initiative, 2017, 3rd edition, p. 6 Among them was Amos Miller, a 23-year-old black man taken from the courtroom during his 1888 trial as a suspect in a sexual assault case, and hanged from the balcony of the county courthouse. The sexual assault victim was a 50-year-old woman."Old Williamson County Courthouse - Public Square", Visit Franklin website In 1924, 15-year-old Samuel Smith was lynched in Nolensville for shooting and wounding a white grocer. He was taken from a Nashville hospital by a mob and brought back to the town to be murdered. He was the last recorded lynching victim in the Nashville area.
In the post-Reconstruction era and the early 20th, century, white violence agains?t African Americans increased in an effort to assert dominance. Five African Americans were lynched by white mobs in Williamson County.Lynching in America/ Supplemen,t: Lynchings by County , Equal Justice Initiative, 2017, 3rd edition, p. 6 Among them was Amos Miller, a 23-year-old black man taken from the courtroom during his 1888 trial as a suspect in a sexual assault case, and hanged from the balcony of the county courthouse. The sexual assault victim was a 50-,year-old woman."Old Williamson County Courthouse - Public Square", Visit Franklin webs.ite In 1924, 15-year-old Samuel Smith was lynched in Nolensville for shooting and wounding a white grocer. He was taken from a Nashville hospital by a mob and brought back to the town to be murdered He was the last recorded lynching victim in the Nashville area.