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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.
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 ...
In 1868 in Tennessee, Samuel Bierfield became the first American Jew to be lynched. The lynching of Leo Frank is the most well-known case in American history. [2] The lynching of Frank is commonly perceived as the only lynching of an American Jew, despite several other known cases before and after. [3]
On a hill overlooking the sculpture is the Memorial Corridor which displays 805 hanging steel rectangles, each representing the counties in the United States where a documented lynching took place and, for each county, the names of those lynched. For Lamar County, Irving and Herman Arthur are memorialized as lynching victims. [12]
Here are the times, TV schedule and scores for every SEC college football game in Week 12, from Georgia-Tennessee to Missouri-Florida:
The lynchings had also occurred at the moment that the House of Representatives was debating Rep. Joseph Gavagan's (D-New York) anti-lynching legislation. [ 42 ] [ 66 ] The outrage helped gain support for anti-lynching legislation that he introduced.
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