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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 ...
James Allen (born June 16, 1954) [1] is an American antique collector, known in particular for his collection of 145 photographs of lynchings in America, published in 2000 with Congressman John Lewis as Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America.
Scholars have called capital punishment as "legal lynching," with the overlapping history of the peak of lynching with the rise of the death penalty. 'A new version of lynching': Why the cases of ...
Stepping to a lectern on a frigid afternoon after he signed the bill into law, Biden spoke about the history of lynching in America and the long process of outlawing it, addressing Till’s loved ...
A Lynching at Port Jervis: Race and Reckoning in the Gilded Age. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022. ISBN 978-0-374-19441-3; There Is Power in a Union: The Epic Story of Labor in America. Doubleday, 2010. ISBN 978-0-385-52629-6; Capitol Men: The Epic Story of Reconstruction Through the Lives of the First Black Congressmen. Mariner Books, 2010.
Cutler, James E., Lynch-Law: An Investigation Into the History of Lynching in the United States (New York, 1905) Dray, Philip, At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America, New York: Random House, 2002. Eric Foner, Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877. 119–23.
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.