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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 ...
White lynchings of black people also occurred in the Midwestern United States and the Border States, especially during the 20th-century Great Migration of black people out of the Southern United States. The purpose for many of the lynchings was to enforce white supremacy and intimidate black people through racial terrorism. [3]
Lynching deaths in New York (state) (5 P) Lynching deaths in North Carolina (9 P) Lynching deaths in North Dakota (2 P) O. Lynching deaths in Ohio (4 P)
Most of the lynchings occurred in the American South, as the majority of African Americans lived there, but racially motivated lynchings also occurred in the Midwest and border states. In 1891, the largest single mass lynching in American history was perpetrated in New Orleans against Italian immigrants.
The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, informally known as the National Lynching Memorial, [1] is a memorial to commemorate the black victims of lynching in the United States. It is intended to focus on and acknowledge past racial terrorism and advocate for social justice in America.
“The last recording lynching in the United States was in 1981,” says Jill Collen Jefferson, who founded a civil rights... View Article The post Washington Post harrowingly reports ...
The End of American Lynching. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2012. ... Interactive map of lynchings in the United States, 1883-1941; Auslander, ...
The lynching The tombstone of Mae Crow in Forsyth County's Pleasant Grove Cemetery. Three Black men were accused in 1912 of beating, raping and killing her, with little evidence.