Greenville Texas Racist Lynching of Ted Smith 1908 Real Photo Postcard

The postcard documents the lynching of a Black man identified as Smith on July 28, 1908, in Greenville, Texas. This brutal act of racial violence was part of a widespread pattern of extralegal executions targeting African Americans throughout the Jim Crow South, intended to enforce white supremacy and terrorize Black communities. J.Q. Adams, the photographer, captured this event, transforming a public spectacle of violence into a visual record.