Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Georgia Historical Society erected a state historical marker near the site. The historical marker was one of the first in the United States to document a lynching. The sign is at , near Monroe, Georgia, in Walton County. The marker is at the intersection of U.S. 78 and Locklin Road, on the right when traveling east on U.S. 78.
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 ...
A lynching is an extrajudicial killing by a mob, and is not limited to deaths by hanging. Pages in category "Lynching deaths in Georgia (U.S. state)" The following 34 pages are in this category, out of 34 total.
White lynchings of black people also occurred in the Midwestern United States and the Border States, especially during the 20th-century Great Migration of black people out of the Southern United States. The purpose for many of the lynchings was to enforce white supremacy and intimidate black people through racial terrorism. [3]
The Watkinsville lynching was a mass lynching that occurred in Watkinsville, Georgia, United States on June 30, 1905. The lynching, which saw a large mob seize 9 men from a local jail and kill 8 of them by gunfire, has been described as "one of the worst episodes of racial violence ever in Georgia."
A permanent exhibit at the Chatham Community Library is home to six jars of soil collected from each of the known sites where people were killed between 1885 and 1921.
These lynchings are examples of the racially motivated mob violence by white people against black people in the American South, especially during 1880 to 1930, the peak of lynchings. Brooks County in Georgia, and Georgia among the states, had the highest rates of lynching in the nation during this period [citation needed].
A plaque and jar of soil to commemorate the lynching of Edwards sit in the historical society’s library. ... bid for the Georgia state Senate, but he says he was encouraged by moments of solace ...