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Racial violence & lynching

The Grave of Robert Marshall — Marker for the Last Documented Lynching in the American West

Nathaniel L.
Price, Utah

Robert Marshall was a Black coal miner who was lynched by a mob near Price, Utah, on June 18, 1925, after being accused of killing a lawman, even though he never received a trial. Many people witnessed the lynching, but no one was ever convicted. Today, the main public place connected to his story is his grave in Price City Cemetery, where a memorial headstone was installed in 1998 honoring him as "A Victim of Intolerance." The original lynching site is on private land and is not preserved as a public landmark.