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The lynching of Michael Donald in Mobile, Alabama, on March 21, 1981, was one of the last reported lynchings in the United States. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Several Ku Klux Klan (KKK) members beat and killed Michael Donald, a 19-year-old African-American, and hung his body from a tree.
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.
A lynching is an extrajudicial killing by a mob, and is not limited to deaths by hanging. Pages in category "Lynching deaths in Alabama" 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 ...
Jesse Thornton was a 26 years old African-American man who was lynched in the town of Luverne, Alabama, on June 22, 1940.Thornton was lynched for allegedly refusing to address a white man as "Mister".
Map of Alabama with Elmore County in red. Elmore County is a county located in the east-central portion of the U.S. state of Alabama. Throughout its history, there have been many lynchings in the county including on July 2, 1901, when a local mob lynched Robert (or perhaps Robin) White. In a strange turn of events, a local farmer, George White ...
Gadsden, Alabama: Times-News Print. Co. OCLC 12760995; The Guardian (May 25, 2018). "America's first memorial to victims of lynching opens in Alabama – live updates". The Guardian; The New York Times (October 5, 1919). "For Action on Race Riot Peril". The New York Times. New York, NY.
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