Charlotte Harris was an African-American woman who was lynched by a white mob on March 6, 1878, near Harrisonburg, in Rockingham County, Virginia.
[1] On Thursday, February 28th, 1878, a barn burned down that belonged to Henry E. Sipe, a white man living a couple miles east of McGaheysville in eastern Rockingham County.
At 11 pm on the same day, two men in blackface armed with cocked revolvers appeared at the jail and demanded the jailers hand over Harris.
[2] In September, 2020, a historical marker honoring Charlotte Harris was unveiled at Court Square in Harrisonburg, Virginia.
[3] The historical marker reads: About a dozen disguised people took Charlotte Harris from the custody of jailers in eastern Rockingham County on the night of 6 March 1878 and hanged her from a tree approximately 13 miles southeast of here.