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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, (though James Byrd, Jr., was lynched in Jasper, Texas in 1998). [ 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.
Nearly 3,500 African Americans and 1,300 whites were lynched in the United States between 1882 and 1968. [1] Most lynchings were of African-American men in the Southern United States, but women were also lynched. More than 73 percent of lynchings in the post–Civil War period occurred in the Southern states. [2]
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' lynching on November 11, 1909. An estimated 10,000 spectators were present at the lynching. William "Froggie" James, an African-American man, was lynched and his dead body mutilated on November 11, 1909 by a mob in Cairo, Illinois, after he was charged with the rape and murder of 23-year-old shop clerk Anna Pelley.
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 ...
In 2020, soil from the site where Rob Edwards was lynched was donated to The Legacy Museum in Montgomery, Alabama, for display with soil from other lynching sites across the United States. [25] In January 2021, a historical marker documenting the lynching of Rob Edwards was unveiled in downtown Cumming. [12]
The discovery of a black man found hanged from a tree in Mississippi quickly made national headlines and brought back some unpleasant memories of American's violent, racially charged past. "Otis ...
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.