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In Virginia, a documented 86 men were lynched between 1888 and 1926. [1] These murders typically did not result in conviction: only 0.8% of lynchings resulted in a conviction between 1900 and 1933. Virginia fared slightly better than the national average during the same time period, with 4% of lynchers convicted for their crimes. [6]
Bernstein, Patricia, The First Waco Horror: The Lynching of Jesse Washington and the Rise of the NAACP. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press (March 2005), hardcover, ISBN 1-58544-416-2; Brundage, W. Fitzhugh, Lynching in the New South: Georgia and Virginia, 1880–1930, Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press (1993), ISBN 0-252-06345-7
The lynching of Charlotte Harris is the only recorded lynching of a Black woman in Virginia's history. The lynching attracted national attention. While local newspapers characterized Harris as a "bad woman", a number of newspapers elsewhere denounced the crime as "disgusting" and an "atrocity" that reflected poorly on the Commonwealth of ...
Joseph H. McCoy (1878/1879 – April 23, 1897) was a Black teenager who was lynched in Alexandria, Virginia beginning the night of April 22, 1897 by a mob who fought their way through police officers to break him out of jail. The mob then beat McCoy severely before he was hanged to death.
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 ...
Embattled Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax compared himself to Jim Crow-era lynching victims in a surprise speech as he resists calls to resign.
As of 2019, the murder of Orion Anderson was the second of three recorded lynchings in Loudoun County, Virginia, between 1880 and 1902. [1] Of the 4,743 known lynchings in the United States between 1882 and 1968, reported by Tuskegee University and the NAACP, [7] [9] 100 occurred in Virginia; of these, 83 of the victims were African Americans. [7]
Benjamin Thomas (1883/1884 – August 8, 1899) was a 16-year-old Black teenager who was lynched in Alexandria, Virginia on August 8, 1899. He had been arrested the day before and put into jail before a mob broke into the jail, dragging him outside, before beating him and ultimately he was hanged to death.