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Marshall Carter

He suffered a fractured skull and died at Grady Hospital of asphyxia due to inhaled vomit.

Age
13
Occupation
Schoolboy
Where they lived
Love Street, on the edge of Summerhill
Where they died
Grady Hospital
Date
22 September 1906
Buried
South-View Cemetery

Counted in 2023

His original Fulton County Board of Health “return of a death” certificate was located. It carried the word “riot.”

NCCHR Truth and Transformation Initiative, with the Georgia Civil Rights Cold Cases Project and the Afro-American Genealogical Historical Society

What we don’t know

  • Who his family were
  • Where exactly he was attacked

Sources

  1. National Center for Civil and Human Rights, “Unearthing the Past: Identifying Victims of the 1906 Atlanta Race Massacre”