enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Lynching of African-American veterans after World War I

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_African...

    By 1919, lynching had developed into a programmatic ritual of torture and empowerment to the white race. [2] The accurate number of African American veterans lynched in military uniform is unknown, but there were several cases of beatings and lynchings for the refusal to remove a military uniform, most notably the lynching of Wilbur Little in ...

  3. Lynching of Wilbur Little - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_Wilbur_Little

    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.

  4. Robert Prager - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Prager

    Robert Paul Prager (February 28, 1888 – April 5, 1918) was a German immigrant who was lynched in the United States during World War I due to growing anti-German sentiment.

  5. Trench code - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trench_code

    The original telephone code featured a small set of two-letter codewords that were spelled out in voice communications. This grew into a three-letter code scheme, which was then adopted for wireless, with early one-part code implementations evolving into more secure two-part code implementations. The British began to adopt trench codes as well.

  6. Lynching in the United States - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_in_the_United_States

    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 ...

  7. Lynching of Irving and Herman Arthur - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_Irving_and...

    The year before the lynching of Irving and Herman Arthur saw several incidents of civil unrest that spiked during the so-called American Red Summer of 1919, with terrorist attacks on black communities and white oppression in over three dozen cities and counties. In most cases, white mobs attacked African American neighborhoods.

  8. Lynching of Henry Lowry - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_Henry_Lowry

    The lynching of Henry Lowry, on January 26, 1921, was the murder of an African-American man, Henry Lowry, by a mob of white vigilantes in Arkansas.Lowry (also spelled "Lowery"), a tenant farmer, had been on the run after a deadly shootout at the house of planter O. T. Craig on Christmas Day of 1920.

  9. Lynching of American Jews - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_American_Jews

    Leo Frank's lynching on the morning of August 17, 1915. [1] There are multiple recorded incidents of the lynching of American Jews occurring between 1868 and 1964 in the American South. In 1868 in Tennessee, Samuel Bierfield became the first American Jew to be lynched. The lynching of Leo Frank is the most well-known case in American history. [2]