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While a trial was in progress, preparations to lynch the victim were made outside. When constables walked out with Hamilton, the crowd seized and hanged him. [26] [27] Jim Wilson: Oakland: Caroline: Maryland: 1862: Rape and murder of an eight year old white girl [28] Great Hanging at Gainesville (number >16) Adult men: White: Gainesville: Cooke ...
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 ...
The lynch mob taking a battering ram to the doors of the jailhouse. At approximately 9:00 p.m., Rolph canceled a planned trip to the Western Governors' Conference in Boise, Idaho, [63] to prevent his chief political rival, Lieutenant Governor Frank Merriam, from calling out the National Guard to stop the lynchings.
The Victims of Southern Mob Violence (University of North Carolina Press, 2015). ISBN 978-1-4696-2087-9. Cameron, James. A Time of Terror: A Survivor’s Story, (Black Classics Press, 1982/reprint 1994). Carr, Cynthia, Our Town: A Heartland Lynching, A Haunted Town, and the Hidden History of White America, (Random House, 2007). Madison, James.
The lynching of Michael Donald in Mobile, Alabama, on March 21, 1981, was one of the last reported lynchings in the United States. [1] [2] Several Ku Klux Klan (KKK) members beat and killed Michael Donald, a 19-year-old African-American, and hung his body from a tree.
A permanent exhibit at the Chatham Community Library is home to six jars of soil collected from each of the known sites where people were killed between 1885 and 1921.
A colorized postcard of the lynching of Virgil Jones, Robert Jones, Thomas Jones, and Joseph Riley on July 31, 1908, in Russellville, Kentucky. A lynching postcard is a postcard bearing the photograph of a lynching—a vigilante murder usually motivated by racial hatred—intended to be distributed, collected, or kept as a souvenir.
In 1991, police discovered Jeffrey Dahmer had 84 polaroid photos depicting 17 murders he committed between 1978 to 1991. The act is shown in 'Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story' on Netflix.