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Sociologist Arthur F. Raper investigated one hundred lynchings during the 1930s and estimated that approximately one-third of the victims were falsely accused. [4] [5] On a per capita basis, lynchings were also common in California and the Old West, especially of Latinos, although they represented less than 10% of the national total.
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Byrd's lynching became the subject of national news and prompted anti-lynching legislation to be signed into law by Governor Harry F. Byrd of Virginia in 1928. [1] The only man indicted by a grand jury for the lynching, Floyd Willard, was acquitted after only ten minutes of deliberation during the trial on July 19, 1927. [1] [3]
The lynching of Richard Dickerson took place in Springfield, Ohio, on 7 March 1904. Dickerson was an African American man arrested for the fatal shooting of a white police officer, Charles B. Collis. A mob broke into the jail and seized and lynched Dickerson. Riots and attacks on Black-owned businesses followed.
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 ...
From the beginning, local and state officials denied that a lynching had taken place. In 1928, then-Governor Harry F. Byrd Sr. signed into law "the first effective anti-lynching law", [7]: 21 the Virginia Anti-Lynching Law of 1928 (the Barron-Connor Act).
On June 12, 1887, Peter Betters was lynched by a small mob in Jamestown, Ohio following the brutal assault of Martha Thomas. [1] The lynching was historically notable because assault victim Martha Thomas was Black, and because a mixed crowd of Black and White citizens joined together to seek revenge for her injuries by murdering her accused attacker Peter Betters.