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The lynching of four members of the Padgett Family took place in Reidsville, a town in Tattnall County, Georgia, on May 21, 1907. Sim Padgett, his wife, one of his daughters, and one of his sons – all of whom were African American citizens – were targeted by a mob of white American citizens who claimed that Padgett was harboring a fugitive, another African American man named Mack Strickland who was accused of the sexual assault of a white woman.