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A lynching is an extrajudicial killing by a mob, and is not limited to deaths by hanging. Pages in category "Lynching deaths in Tennessee" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total.
People's Grocery, Memphis Tennessee, c. 1890. The People's Grocery lynchings of 1892 occurred on March 9, 1892, in Memphis, Tennessee, when black grocery owner Thomas Moss and two of his workers, Will Stewart and Calvin McDowell, were lynched by a white mob while in police custody. The lynchings occurred in the aftermath of a fight between ...
Category: Lynching deaths in the United States by state. ... Lynching deaths in Tennessee (22 P) Lynching deaths in Texas (29 P) U. Lynching deaths in Utah (8 P) V.
1914 fire map (3 years before the lynching) showing a vacant lot. Descriptions of the location point to this lot as the most likely Lation Scott lynching site, in Dyersburg TN. On December 1, ten days after the accusation, he was found. Scott was seeking work in Oakfield, Tennessee, and the foreman at the job
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.
Historian L. B. Wrenn suggests the heightened political hostility of the Democratic contest and related social tensions contributed to a white mob lynching three black grocers in Memphis in 1892. [40]: 124, 131 Journalist Ida B. Wells of Memphis investigated the lynchings, as one of the men killed was a friend of hers. She demonstrated that ...
The group has documented over 4,400 lynchings in 20 states between 1877 and 1950. UNC-Chapel Hill’s “A Red Record” lynching project has documented over 170 lynchings in North Carolina since ...
This historic plaque also honors the memory of two other lynching victims: his brother Henry Grizzard, and Samuel Smith of Nolensville, Tennessee, who was killed in relation to another incident. [10] The Grizzard brothers and Smith were three of the six blacks documented as lynched in Davidson County in the post-Reconstruction period.