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While the majority of lynching victims were African-American men and boys, the majority of female lynching victims were African-American women and girls. The lynching of Black women has sometimes been understudied by academics and overlooked by the general public. The role of white women as perpetrators of lynching is also understudied. [1]
Marina Yurlova during World War I. She was born in Raevskaya, a small village near Krasnodar. [5] The daughter of a colonel of the Kuban Cossacks, she was just 14 years old when her father went to war in August 1914.
Sociologist Arthur F. Raper investigated one hundred lynchings during the 1930s and estimated that approximately one-third of the victims were falsely accused. [4] [5] On a per capita basis, lynchings were also common in California and the Old West, especially of Latinos, although they represented less than 10% of the national 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 ...
By 1919, lynching had developed into a programmatic ritual of torture and empowerment to the white race. [2] The accurate number of African American veterans lynched in military uniform is unknown, but there were several cases of beatings and lynchings for the refusal to remove a military uniform, most notably the lynching of Wilbur Little in ...
Lynching victims in the United States (3 C, 36 P) This page was last edited on 22 April 2024, at 18:53 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
Lynching could involve victims being hanged furtively at night by a small group or during the day in front of hundreds or even thousands of witnesses; the latter is known as "spectacle lynchings". The whole community might attend; newspapers sometimes publicized them in advance, and special trains brought in more distant community members. [ 15 ]