The Black Archives Museum, part of the St. Joseph Museums, Inc., has been researching the Lloyd Warner lynching for several years. The Black Archives’ goal is to educate and uplift the community through educational programming and exhibits.
 
St. Joseph was extremely divided during the Civil War. The city's most prominent citizens were high ranking officials in both the Union and Confederate armies, and nearly all owned slaves regardless of their position during the war. As such, there is a long legacy of Southern sympathizers and Confederate memorialization in the community. Despite prominent African American businessmen and doctors in the community at the turn of the century, the presence of deep-seated racism became prominent in the 1920s and in subsequent years. The Ku Klux Klan gained a foothold in St. Joseph in 1923 with a newspaper publication, parades, picnics, and conventions. Though they were eventually suppressed, it is easy to see the effect they had in the lynching that occurred ten years later.
 
Not long after the lynching, St. Joseph had one of the worst cases of redlining in the United States (What is redlining?), which factored into the suppression of the community. Fear and overtly racist policies kept the community down until the Civil Rights movement. There were several prominent Civil Rights activists that worked to push St. Joseph towards racial reform in education and business. 
 
Despite this progress, St. Joseph remains divided. Redlining caused some neighborhoods to be deemed less suitable, so the business district of St. Joseph moved east, away from downtown. Redlining does great harm to communities, including trapping those areas in a cycle of poverty.