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The following is an incomplete list of African Americans who had served in the military during WWI and were killed by white mobs with no trials for alleged crimes. Lynching is embedded deep in America's racial psyche. [2] By 1919, lynching had developed into a programmatic ritual of torture and empowerment to the white race. [2]
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 ...
Map of Blakely on a map of Early County (left) and Georgia (right). Wilbur Little (also William [1] [2] or Wilbert [3] in some sources) was a black American veteran of World War I, lynched in April 1919 in his hometown of Blakely, Georgia, for refusing to remove his military uniform.
Most lynchings ceased by the 1960s, [42] [43] but even in 2021 there were claims that racist lynchings still happen in the United States, being covered up as suicides. [ 44 ] 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.
Sociologist Arthur F. Raper investigated one hundred lynchings during the 1930s and estimated that approximately one-third of the victims were falsely accused. [4] [5] On a per capita basis, lynchings were also common in California and the Old West, especially of Latinos, although they represented less than 10% of the national total.
Kinkkonen was buried in an unmarked grave in the indigent section of Park Hill Cemetery in Duluth, a few rows from where the victims of the 1920 Duluth lynchings would later be buried. [20] In 1993, the Finnish-American cultural society, Työmies , placed a marker on Kinkkonen's grave.
Robert Paul Prager was born in Dresden, Germany, on February 28, 1888.He emigrated to the United States in 1905, at the age of 17. First working as an itinerant baker, [3] he was sentenced to a year in an Indiana reformatory for theft.
[1] [2] [3] The lynching followed months of increasing political violence locally the year before, including the July 1867 attacks on Black Union League members in what was called the Franklin Riot. An estimated 25 to 30 Black people were wounded and three died as a result of that incident, together with one white Conservative.