• McIlherron was lynched in retaliation for shooting and killing two white men after a fight broke out. Walter White wrote a report on the lynching for...
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    victims of racial lynching, but in the American Southwest, Mexican Americans were also the targets of lynching as well. At the first recorded lynching, in...
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  • after the Reconstruction era Group Areas Act Jim Crow economy List of Jim Crow law examples by state Lynching Mass racial violence in the United States Penal...
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    Jim McMillan was lynched in Bibb County, Alabama on June 18, 1919. Racial tension in the Woodstock and Green Pond communities of Bibb County, Alabama,...
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    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...
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    by Side of Son", The Daily Oklahoman, May 26, 1911. "Report of the lynching" (PDF). The Crisis. 2 (3): 99–100. July 1911. "The Oklahoma Lynching" (PDF)...
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    providing rare imagery of a lynching in progress. The pictures were printed and sold as postcards in Waco. Although the lynching was supported by many...
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    Church in Newnan about the lynching. In his speech Rusk stated the Hose lynching was different from the Moore's Ford lynching as Hose had no descendants...
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  • Untold Story of the First Jewish Lynching in America". Haaretz. Retrieved May 15, 2018. Three years later, Jim Taylor, a black man accused of shooting a...
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    lynching. In the same report, the lynching was described as a "gathering" of "several thousands of the first, best, and even the most law-abiding, of...
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  • go to trial. Two weeks after the lynching, a grand jury declined to file charges. While acknowledging that the lynching was a criminal offense, the grand...
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  • April 2022 lynching of black man in South Africa [2], 2008 lynching of black man in South Africa [3], longstanding and ongoing lynchings of black people...
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  • The lynching of Michael Donald in Mobile, Alabama, on March 21, 1981, was one of the last reported lynchings in the United States. Several Ku Klux Klan...
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    physical evidence of rape. The 1920 lynchings are the only known instance of lynching of African-Americans in Minnesota. Twenty other lynchings were recorded...
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    Anti-Lynching Bill, 1918 Justice for Victims of Lynching Act, 2018 Lynching in the United States McDaniel, Eric; Moore, Elena (March 29, 2022). "Lynching is...
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    outlaw Lynching of women in the United States Van Pelt, p. 157. Van Pelt, p. 154. Davis, p. 69. Hufsnmith, George W. (1993). The Wyoming Lynching of Cattle...
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    The anti-lynching movement was an organized political movement in the United States that aimed to eradicate the practice of lynching. Lynching was used...
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    documented lynching took place and, for each county, the names of those lynched. For Lamar County, Irving and Herman Arthur are memorialized as lynching victims...
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    woman begged the mob not to lynch Meadows, as she was unsure if he was the criminal, but the mob went forward with the lynching and killed him near the Pratt...
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    Julin, Chris (June 2001). "The other lynching in Duluth". Minnesota Public Radio. Retrieved June 17, 2015. "Lynching in Lester Park". Zenith City Online...
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  • United States and the Genesis of Racial Lynching: The Lynching of African Americans in the Civil War Era". The Journal of American History. 97 (3): 621–635...
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    as "the last lynching in California", although Clyde Johnson was lynched near Yreka in August 1935, and the last true California lynching is said to have...
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    A lynching postcard is a postcard bearing the photograph of a lynching—a vigilante murder usually motivated by racial hatred—intended to be distributed...
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  • Jim Early (some sources give the first name of Thomas and family name of "Earlie") was a 25-year-old African-American man who was lynched in Plantersville...
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  • 25, 2022). "When is a lynching a lynching?". The Guardian. [Supported by the Pulitzer Center]. Analysis of the 2020 murder of Michael Ronnell Williams...
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    the lynching of Wilbur Little in the spring of 1919. Apparent from the table, the vast majority of lynchings took place in the southeast region of the...
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    The race riot resulted in the lynching of Will Brown, a black civilian; the death of two white rioters; the injuries of many Omaha Police Department officers...
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    received no medical treatment. The lynching was met with widespread condemnation, including across the South. The lynching was defended by those who agreed...
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    On December 26, 1920, an African-American man named Wade Thomas was lynched in Jonesboro, Arkansas, by a white mob. The mob seized Thomas from the Jonesboro...
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    Justice, informally known as the National Lynching Memorial, is a memorial to commemorate the black victims of lynching in the United States. It is intended...
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