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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 ...
Most lynchings ceased by the 1960s, [43] [44] but even in 2021 there were claims that racist lynchings still happen in the United States, being covered up as suicides. [ 45 ] In 2018, the National Memorial for Peace and Justice was opened in Montgomery, Alabama, a memorial that commemorates the victims of lynchings in the United States.
White lynchings of black people also occurred in the Midwestern United States and the Border States, especially during the 20th-century Great Migration of black people out of the Southern United States. The purpose for many of the lynchings was to enforce white supremacy and intimidate black people through racial terrorism. [3]
The lynchings in not only the North but the South as well, "indicate how the sectional crisis and the Civil War destabilized and reconfigured northern political culture and social relations". [2] As mentioned above, lynching set fear shockwaves among African Americans in the North and had profound effects on the lives of African Americans.
“We can’t hold his killers accountable, we can’t undo the lynching, but we can remove the scar from the name of this 16-year-old for a crime he didn’t commit,” he said.
The 1891 New Orleans lynchings were the murders of 11 Italian Americans, immigrants in New Orleans, by a mob for their alleged role in the murder of police chief David Hennessy after some of them had been acquitted at trial. Most of the lynching victims accused in the murder had been rounded up and charged due to their Italian ethnicity.
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 ...
Embattled Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax compared himself to Jim Crow-era lynching victims in a surprise speech as he resists calls to resign.