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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 ]
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 ...
According to Ida B. Wells and the Tuskegee University, most lynching victims were accused of murder or attempted murder. Rape or attempted rape was the second most common accusation; such accusations were often pretexts for lynching black people who violated Jim Crow etiquette or engaged in economic competition with white people.
Tolnay, Stewart E. and E. M. Beck, A Festival of Violence: An Analysis of Southern Lynchings, 1882–1930, Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press (1995), ISBN 0-252-06413-5; Trelease, Allen W., White Terror: The Ku Klux Klan Conspiracy and Southern Reconstruction, Harper & Row, 1979.
A misconception about lynching was that it was confined solely to southern practice. However, lynching took place all across the United States in almost every state. Lynchings are acts of extrajudicial killings dating back to the 1830s which marked the pre–Civil War South. The main act of lynching included hanging from trees.
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.He was subjected to a brutal act of mob violence, denial of judicial due process, and the desecration of his body posthumously.
A Lynching in the Heartland: Race and Memory in America (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000). ISBN 0-312-23902-5. online review; Myrdal, Gunnar. An American Dilemma, (Harper and Brothers, 1944). Tolnay, Stewart E. and E. M. Beck, A Festival of Violence: An Analysis of Southern Lynchings, 1882–1930 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992)
The lynching was defended by those who agreed with South Carolina Senator Benjamin Tillman, who said the "proud people" of Lake City refused to receive "their mail from a nigger." [3] Journalist Ida B. Wells-Barnett denounced the lynching and noted that the lynchers had not even pretended that Baker had committed a crime, as mobs often did. [8]