Carrollton, Mississippi: The 1886 Courthouse Massacre That History Forgot

In January 1886, two brothers named Ed and Charley Brown accidentally spilled molasses on a white man's sleeve while making a delivery to a saloon in Carrollton, Mississippi. The man accepted their apology. The matter should have ended there. Instead, a local attorney named James Monroe Liddell decided to make the accident his personal cause, confronting the Browns weeks later and igniting a chain of events that would end in one of the deadliest acts of racialterrorism in American history. On March 17, 1886, as the Brown brothers stood trial in the Carroll County Courthouse, between fifty and one hundred armed white men stormed the building and opened fire on every Black person inside. Twenty-three people were killed. No one was ever charged.

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