Warren Powell Marker Dedication

2847 Main Street,Atlanta GA 30344

04 September, 2022

Description

On September 4, 1889, a masked mob of 15-20 white men seized a black boy named Warren Powell from the jail in East Point, Georgia, and lynched him. Warren, just 14 years old, had been arrested and jailed earlier that day for allegedly attacking a white girl named Ada Brooks while she was walking through the woods on her way home from school. Young Warren Powell was one of at least 35 African American victims of racial terror lynching killed in Fulton County between 1899 and 1936. Please join FCRC to remember Warren Powell.