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Louie Sam (c. 1870 – February 24, 1884) was a Stó:lō youth from an Indigenous community near Abbotsford, British Columbia who was lynched by an American mob.. Sam was 14 at the time these events occurred.
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 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.
As of 1959, which was the last time that Tuskegee Institute's annual report was published, a total of 4,733 persons had died by lynching since 1882. The last lynching recorded by the Tuskegee Institute was that of Emmett Till in 1955. In the 65 years leading up to 1947, at least one lynching was reported every year.
Most lynchings ceased by the 1960s, [42] [43] but even in 2021 there were claims that racist lynchings still happen in the United States, being covered up as suicides. [ 44 ] In 2018, the National Memorial for Peace and Justice was opened in Montgomery, Alabama, a memorial that commemorates the victims of lynchings in the United States.
[21] [22] Lynching came to be associated with the Deep South; 73 percent of lynchings took place in the Southern United States. [23] [24] Between 1882 and 1903, 125 black-on-black lynchings were recorded in 10 southern states, as were four cases of whites being lynched by black people. [25]
Lynching deaths in the United States (2 C, 3 P) J. Jewish-American lynching victims (1 C, 6 P) W. ... This page was last edited on 2 July 2020, at 02:08 (UTC).
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