Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The murder of Farkhunda Malikzada was committed by a Muslim mob in Kabul, Afghanistan, on 19 March 2015. [1] Malikzada, a 27-year-old Afghan woman, had been involved in an argument with a street vendor over his practice of selling amulets when he publicly accused her of burning the Quran, attracting a large group of people from the Shah-Do Shamshira Mosque. [2]
2.1.1 Anti-lynching legislation and the civil rights movement. 2.2 Europe. ... 2015, Farkhunda's burial was attended by a large crowd of Kabul residents; many ...
The body of John Lee with members of the lynch mob. John Lee was an African-American man who was lynched on August 12, 1911, in Durant, Oklahoma.After assaulting a woman who had given him some food, he shot her in the hip while fleeing the scene.
The scene after the lynching was recorded in a series of photographs by George Henry Farnum, the owner of Okemah's only photography studio. [44] There are four known extant images taken from a boat. Photographs nos. 2894 and 2898 are close-up shots of L. D. and Laura; nos. 2897 and 2899 show the bridge and spectators.
Nasir-ud-Daulah was born as Mir Farkhunda Ali Khan in Bidar, at present-day Karnataka, India, on 25 April 1794.He was the eldest son of Nizam Sikandar Jah.Nasir-ud-Daulah's mother was Fazilat-un-Nisa Begum, the favourite wife of his father.
The 1891 New Orleans lynchings were the murders of 11 Italian Americans, immigrants in New Orleans, by a mob for their alleged role in the murder of police chief David Hennessy after some of them had been acquitted at trial. It was the largest single mass lynching in American history.
The lynching The tombstone of Mae Crow in Forsyth County's Pleasant Grove Cemetery. Three Black men were accused in 1912 of beating, raping and killing her, with little evidence.
Cripple Creek Bar-room Scene; Poker at Dawson City; These two films were produced by Edison's Black Maria and have been argued to be the first Western films. [6] A Bluff from a Tenderfoot; Filmed by Frederick S. Armitage for the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, this depicts a poker game. [7]