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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.
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 ...
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.
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. The period from 1882 to 1901 saw the height of lynchings, with an average of more than 150 each year. 1892 saw the most number of lynchings in a year: 231 or 3.25 per one ...
Gadsden, Alabama: Times-News Print. Co. OCLC 12760995; The Guardian (May 25, 2018). "America's first memorial to victims of lynching opens in Alabama – live updates". The Guardian; The New York Times (October 5, 1919). "For Action on Race Riot Peril". The New York Times. New York, NY.
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 ...
Jesse Thornton was a 26 years old African-American man who was lynched in the town of Luverne, Alabama, on June 22, 1940.Thornton was lynched for allegedly refusing to address a white man as "Mister".
Horace Maples was an African-American man who was lynched by a mob of approximately 2,000 people in Huntsville, Alabama, on September 7, 1904. [1] Maples had been accused of murder and was being held in the county jail when it was set on fire by the crowd.