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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 ...
Lynchings in the United States rose in number after the American Civil War in the late 19th century, following the emancipation of slaves; they declined in the 1920s. Nearly 3,500 African Americans and 1,300 whites were lynched in the United States between 1882 and 1968. [ 1 ]
Before the Needles, Executions (and Lynchings) in America Before Lethal Injection. Details of thousands of lynchings; Houghton Mifflin: The Reader's Companion to American History – Lynching; Lynching in Georgia, New Georgia Encyclopedia; Lynchings in the State of Iowa; Lynchings in America
“The last recording lynching in the United States was in 1981,” says Jill Collen Jefferson, who founded a civil rights... View Article The post Washington Post harrowingly reports ...
Leo Frank's lynching on the morning of August 17, 1915. [1] There are multiple recorded incidents of the lynching of American Jews occurring between 1868 and 1964 in the American South. In 1868 in Tennessee, Samuel Bierfield became the first American Jew to be lynched. The lynching of Leo Frank is the most well-known case in American history. [2]
Most of the lynchings occurred in the American South, as the majority of African Americans lived there, but racially motivated lynchings also occurred in the Midwest and border states. In 1891, the largest single mass lynching in American history was perpetrated in New Orleans against Italian immigrants.
The lynching The tombstone of Mae Crow in Forsyth County's Pleasant Grove Cemetery. Three Black men were accused in 1912 of beating, raping and killing her, with little evidence.
The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, informally known as the National Lynching Memorial, [1] is a memorial to commemorate the black victims of lynching in the United States. It is intended to focus on and acknowledge past racial terrorism and advocate for social justice in America.