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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 ...
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".
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Most lynchings ceased by the 1960s, [43] [44] but even in 2021 there were claims that racist lynchings still happen in the United States, being covered up as suicides. [ 45 ] 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.