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A graph of lynchings in the US by victim race and year [1] The body of George Meadows, lynched near the Pratt Mines in Jefferson County, Alabama, on January 15, 1889 Bodies of three African-American men lynched in Habersham County, Georgia, on May 17, 1892 Six African-American men lynched in Lee County, Georgia, on January 20, 1916 (retouched photo due to material deterioration) Lynching of ...
This is a list of lynching victims in the United States. While the definition has changed over time, lynching is often defined as the summary execution of one or more persons without due process of law by a group of people organized internally and not authorized by a legitimate government.
The lynching. The tombstone of Mae Crow in Forsyth County's Pleasant Grove Cemetery. ... Today, Osby says, several half-million-dollar subdivision homes sit on the land her grandparents once owned ...
While the majority of lynching victims were African-American men and boys, the majority of female lynching victims were African-American women and girls. The lynching of Black women has sometimes been understudied by academics and overlooked by the general public. The role of white women as perpetrators of lynching is also understudied. [1 ...
The discovery of a black man found hanged from a tree in Mississippi quickly made national headlines and brought back some unpleasant memories of American's violent, racially charged past. "Otis ...
His findings in the 19th-century lynching — one of several in the South Carolina Midlands — were detailed in stories in The State in 2021, and are the subject of the new six-part podcast ...
Global Lynching and Collective Violence: Volume 2: The Americas and Europe. University of Illinois Press, 2017. Pfeifer, Michael J. (ed.), Lynching Beyond Dixie: American Mob Violence Outside the South. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2013. Robbins, Hollis The Literature of Lynching, Chronicle of Higher Education, 2015.
At the 6-acre National Memorial for Peace and Justice, visitors are solemnly exposed to the decadeslong domestic terrorism of more than 4,000 recorded lynchings in America between 1877 and 1950.