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A lynching is an extrajudicial killing by a mob, and is not limited to deaths by hanging. Pages in category "Lynching deaths in Tennessee" 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 ...
This historic plaque also honors the memory of two other lynching victims: his brother Henry Grizzard, and Samuel Smith of Nolensville, Tennessee, who was killed in relation to another incident. [10] The Grizzard brothers and Smith were three of the six blacks documented as lynched in Davidson County in the post-Reconstruction period.
Interactive map of lynchings in the United States, 1883-1941; Auslander, Mark, "Holding on to Those Who Can't be Held": Reenacting a Lynching at Moore's Ford, Georgia", Southern Spaces, November 8, 2010.
The People's Grocery lynchings of 1892 occurred on March 9, 1892, in Memphis, Tennessee, when black grocery owner Thomas Moss and two of his workers, Will Stewart and Calvin McDowell, were lynched by a white mob while in police custody. The lynchings occurred in the aftermath of a fight between whites and blacks and two subsequent shooting ...
Bland suggested adding historical markers to the Maury County Courthouse and other lynching sites throughout the state, like the site of the People’s Grocery lynchings in Memphis, where a ...
The Nashville Tennessean noted that it was reminiscent of the 1892 lynching of Ephraim Grizzard. [1] The lynching was denounced by Nashville Mayor Hilary Ewing Howse. [2] Prominent city residents wrote an open letter to Governor Austin Peay and Sheriff Riley asking them to bring the perpetrators of the lynching to justice. [3]
The group has documented over 4,400 lynchings in 20 states between 1877 and 1950. UNC-Chapel Hill’s “A Red Record” lynching project has documented over 170 lynchings in North Carolina since ...