On April 23, 1899, in Newnan, Georgia, located on the ancestral, stolen lands of the Mvskoke people, Sam Hose, a Black man accused of killing a white man who owed him wages, is chained to a tree, dismembered, mutilated and burned alive before a crowd of thousands of white people. Spectators fight over pieces of the remains wanted as souveniers.

150 miles south, in Lee County, Mitchell Daniel, a leader in the local Black community, speaks publicly in outrage over the lynching of Sam Hose. On this day in 1899, Daniel’s body is discovered along a county road, not far from his home, riddled with bullets and showing evidence of “terrific struggle,” as a local newspaper account describes it. White neighbors report that Daniel talked too much. No one is held accountable for his death.