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Nearly 3,500 African Americans and 1,300 whites were lynched in the United States between 1882 and 1968. [1] Most lynchings were of African-American men in the Southern United States, but women were also lynched. More than 73 percent of lynchings in the post–Civil War period occurred in the Southern states. [2]
Category: Lynching deaths in the United States by state. 1 language. ... Lynching deaths in New York (state) (5 P) Lynching deaths in North Carolina (9 P)
Lynchings were not uncommon in the United States and the Tuskegee Institute recorded the lynchings of 3,446 blacks and 1,297 whites between 1882 and 1968, with the peak occurring in the 1890s. [47] Inside the prison, as the mob was breaking down the door with a battering ram, prison warden Lemuel Davis let the 19 Italian prisoners out of their ...
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 ...
Lynching deaths in the United States (2 C, 3 P) Pages in category "Lynching deaths" The following 85 pages are in this category, out of 85 total.
Lynching deaths in the United States (2 C, 3 P) J. Jewish-American lynching victims (1 C, 6 P) W. Women lynching victims in the United States (11 P)
A lynching is an extrajudicial killing by a mob, and is not limited to deaths by hanging. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
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.