Mar 3, 2023 Mar 3, 2023 Updated Apr 11, 2024 A newly-established group wants to see a lynching memorial become part of the plans for a new Smith County courthouse in downtown Tyler. In May 1909 ...

Specifically, he is working to remove the county from the National Lynching Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama. According to an interactive map, over 500 lynchings happened in the state of Georgia.