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Murder of Henry Gatterman, member a mob intending to lynch James Wilson: Hanged from a telephone pole. Body burned, shot, and hacked. Surasky, Abraham: 30: Jewish-American: rural area near Aiken: Aiken: South Carolina: July 29, 1903: Being a Jewish-American peddler who was helping the murderer's wife carry some things to her house.
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 ...
[28] [49] Other members of the lynch mob included John M. Parker, who was elected as Louisiana's 37th governor, and Walter C. Flower, who was elected as the 44th mayor of New Orleans. [50] [51] The mentally ill Polizzi was hauled outside, hanged from a lamppost, and shot. Antonio Bagnetto, a fruit peddler, was hanged from a tree and shot.
Mob lynching was reported for the third time in Alwar in July 2018, when a group of cow vigilantes killed a 31-year-old Muslim man named Rakbar Khan. [114] In 2006, four members of a Dalit family were slaughtered by Kunbi caste members in khairlanji, a village in the Bhandara district of Maharashtra. [115]
The lynchings in 1922 Texas ranged from single incidents to the deaths of multiple people at the hands of the mob, like the Lynching in Kirvin, Texas where four people were killed. [3] Some lynch mobs burnt their victims alive, others riddled their bodies with bullets or strung them up and hanged them from trees or lamposts.
Finally, Fitelson noted that Harrison was not harmed by the lynch mob. Even if he truthfully could not identify them that day, the mob let Harrison live, knowing he could recognize one or more of them in the future. [13] Fitelson noted that if charged, members of the lynch mob would have faced four counts of first-degree murder.
Margaret Vinegar, 14, barely avoided being lynched in 1882 in Lawrence, then died in prison. The local NAACP is working to put up a historical marker for her.
On October 23, 1916, the white citizens of Abbeville, including many members of the lynch mob, voted to expel the remainder of Crawford's family from South Carolina, and to seize their considerable property holdings. [8] They also voted to close down all the black-owned businesses in Abbeville. [9]