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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 ...
This is a list of lynching victims in the United States. While the definition has changed over time, lynching is often defined as the summary execution of one or more persons without due process of law by a group of people organized internally and not authorized by a legitimate government.
James Allen (born June 16, 1954) [1] is an American antique collector, known in particular for his collection of 145 photographs of lynchings in America, published in 2000 with Congressman John Lewis as Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America.
Notes on the photo from Allen's Without Sanctuary, includes a quote from Cameron's A Time of Terror; American History: "Lynching", Spartacus Educational, includes an account of the origin of poem/song Strange Fruit; Lynchings & Hangings in American History; A 2005 interview with James Cameron, the survivor, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, July 8 ...
A Joe's Crab Shack in Minneapolis is under fire after putting up a photo of an 1895 Texas lynching near one of their tables.
A colorized postcard of the lynching of Virgil Jones, Robert Jones, Thomas Jones, and Joseph Riley on July 31, 1908, in Russellville, Kentucky. A lynching postcard is a postcard bearing the photograph of a lynching—a vigilante murder usually motivated by racial hatred—intended to be distributed, collected, or kept as a souvenir.
The lynching. The tombstone of Mae Crow in Forsyth County's Pleasant Grove Cemetery. ... The people in this October 1912 newspaper photo are not identified but are believed to be, front row from ...
[1] Deputy Sheriff Hugh Curtis stated the lynching took place in a "quickly, quietly and orderly" fashion. [39] The mob was also reported to be "highly organized" and was said to have executed the lynchings "in a jiffy." [49] [50] However, his statement was at odds at newspaper accounts of the lynching, in which it was called "a slow process."