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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. [ 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 lynching is an extrajudicial killing by a mob, and is not limited to deaths by hanging. Pages in category "Lynching deaths in Alabama" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total.
Dragged from his jail cell and shot over 100 times. Last known lynching in Anne Arundel County. [119] [270] Cullen, James: 62: White (Irish) Charles City: Floyd: Iowa: January 9, 1907: Murdered his wife and stepson: Hanged [271] Higgins, Loris: White: Bancroft: Thurston: Nebraska: August 27, 1907: Murder of a farmer and his wife and rape of ...
These lynchings were part of a period of civil unrest now known as the American Red Summer of 1919. Attacks on black communities and white oppression spread to more than three dozen cities and counties. In most cases, white mobs attacked African American neighborhoods.
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 ...
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.
Will or Willie Temple (also named "John" [1]) was an African American man who was lynched by a white mob on September 30, 1919, in Montgomery, Alabama. Willie Temple born in 1894; he was the oldest of four children. His parents, Lewis and Ella (Shorter) Temple, were farmers, and Temple worked for the Louisville and Nashville Railroad as a cook ...
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