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The lynching of Michael Donald in Mobile, Alabama, on March 21, 1981, was one of the last reported lynchings in the United States. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Several Ku Klux Klan (KKK) members beat and killed Michael Donald, a 19-year-old African-American, and hung his body from a tree.
Some 200 anti-lynching bills were introduced in Congress between the end of the Civil War and the Civil Rights movement, but none passed. In 2022, 67 years after Emmett Till's killing and the end of the lynching era, the United States Congress passed anti-lynching legislation in the form of the Emmett Till Antilynching Act.
Nearly 3,500 African Americans and 1,300 whites were lynched in the United States between 1882 and 1968. [1] Most lynchings were of African-American men in the Southern United States, but women were also lynched. More than 73 percent of lynchings in the post–Civil War period occurred in the Southern states. [2]
“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 ...
A Lynching in the Heartland: Race and Memory in America (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000). ISBN 0-312-23902-5. online review; Myrdal, Gunnar. An American Dilemma, (Harper and Brothers, 1944). Tolnay, Stewart E. and E. M. Beck, A Festival of Violence: An Analysis of Southern Lynchings, 1882–1930 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992)
A professional photographer took pictures as the event unfolded, providing rare imagery of a lynching in progress. The pictures were printed and sold as postcards in Waco. Although the lynching was supported by many Waco residents, it was condemned by newspapers around the United States.
The lynching prompted Governor George Shafer to call for an investigation. James Morris, then the state's attorney general and later a Supreme Court justice, as well as a trial judge in a post-World War 2 war crimes trial, led the investigation. He commented on how the noose was tied, noted that a possible manufacturer's mark was present in the ...
The Chatham Community Library display houses six jars of soil collected from known lynching sites. Skip to main content. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 ...