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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, (though James Byrd, Jr., was lynched in Jasper, Texas in 1998). [ 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.
A lynching is an extrajudicial killing by a mob, and is not limited to deaths by hanging. Pages in category "Lynching deaths in Alabama" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total.
Dragged from his jail cell and shot over 100 times. Last known lynching in Anne Arundel County. [119] [270] Cullen, James: 62: White (Irish) Charles City: Floyd: Iowa: January 9, 1907: Murdered his wife and stepson: Hanged [271] Higgins, Loris: White: Bancroft: Thurston: Nebraska: August 27, 1907: Murder of a farmer and his wife and rape of ...
In Alabama, there were 359 reported lynchings between 1877 and 1943, according to the Equal Justice Initiative, a criminal justice reform nonprofit. In Colbert County alone, there were 11.
Map of Alabama with Elmore County in red. Elmore County is a county located in the east-central portion of the U.S. state of Alabama. Throughout its history, there have been many lynchings in the county including on July 2, 1901, when a local mob lynched Robert (or perhaps Robin) White. In a strange turn of events, a local farmer, George White ...
The Chatham Community Library display houses six jars of soil collected from known lynching sites. ... and will also be highlighted again in February for Black History Month, along with a display ...
Will or Willie Temple (also named "John" [1]) was an African American man who was lynched by a white mob on September 30, 1919, in Montgomery, Alabama. Willie Temple born in 1894; he was the oldest of four children. His parents, Lewis and Ella (Shorter) Temple, were farmers, and Temple worked for the Louisville and Nashville Railroad as a cook ...
An exhibit honoring the victims of lynching in Jacksonville, Screams Echo: The Legacy of Lynching, opened in January at Yellow House with work from four artists.