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Lynch's extralegal actions were legitimized by the Virginia General Assembly in 1782. After the Revolution, he served in the Virginia Senate from 1784 to 1789. " Lynch's Law ", referring to organized but unauthorized punishment of criminals, became a common phrase, as it was used by Lynch to describe his actions as early as 1782.
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 ...
Charles Lynch's extralegal actions were legitimized by the Virginia General Assembly in 1782. [1] In 1811, Captain William Lynch claimed that the phrase "Lynch's Law", already famous, actually came from a 1780 compact signed by him and his neighbours in Pittsylvania County, Virginia, to uphold their own brand of law independent of legal authority.
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]
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In Virginia, a documented 86 men were lynched between 1888 and 1926. [1] These murders typically did not result in conviction: only 0.8% of lynchings resulted in a conviction between 1900 and 1933. Virginia fared slightly better than the national average during the same time period, with 4% of lynchers convicted for their crimes. [6]
Joseph H. McCoy (1878/1879 – April 23, 1897) was a Black teenager who was lynched in Alexandria, Virginia beginning the night of April 22, 1897 by a mob who fought their way through police officers to break him out of jail. The mob then beat McCoy severely before he was hanged to death.
Harris had been accused of inciting a young African American man to burn the barn of a white farmer. This man was later acquitted on all charges. More than 4,000 lynchings took place in the United States between 1877 and 1950; more than 100 people, primarily African American men, were lynched in Virginia. [4]