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  2. Lynching of African-American veterans after World War I

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    Although, post World War 1 could be defined as the spark that initiated the fight against the status quo and the emergence of the New Negro Movement. [2] The fight for equality and civil rights in the United States would become a centuries-long battle which is still taking place today. [ 3 ]

  3. Lynching in the United States - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Lynching - Wikipedia

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    Lynching Pascual Orozco, Mexican Revolutionary Hero and Paradox. Create Space. ISBN 978-1514382509. Campney, Brent MS, Amy Chazkel, Stephen P. Frank, Dean J. Kotlowski, Gema Santamaría, Ryan Shaffer, and Hannah Skoda. Global Lynching and Collective Violence: Volume 2: The Americas and Europe. University of Illinois Press, 2017.

  5. Lynching of American Jews - Wikipedia

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    Leo Frank's lynching on the morning of August 17, 1915. [1] There are multiple recorded incidents of the lynching of American Jews occurring between 1868 and 1964 in the American South. In 1868 in Tennessee, Samuel Bierfield became the first American Jew to be lynched. The lynching of Leo Frank is the most well-known case in American history. [2]

  6. Lynching of Wilbur Little - Wikipedia

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    Map of Blakely on a map of Early County (left) and Georgia (right). Wilbur Little (also William [1] [2] or Wilbert [3] in some sources) was a black American veteran of World War I, lynched in April 1919 in his hometown of Blakely, Georgia, for refusing to remove his military uniform.

  7. Lynching of Richard Dickerson - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Robert Prager - Wikipedia

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    Robert Paul Prager was born in Dresden, Germany, on February 28, 1888.He emigrated to the United States in 1905, at the age of 17. First working as an itinerant baker, [3] he was sentenced to a year in an Indiana reformatory for theft.

  9. Anti-lynching movement - Wikipedia

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    The anti-lynching movement was an organized political movement in the United States that aimed to eradicate the practice of lynching. Lynching was used as a tool to repress African Americans. [1] The anti-lynching movement reached its height between the 1890s and 1930s.