• Bernice Raspberry, also called Ed Lively, was a 23-year old African-American man who was murdered in Leakesville, Mississippi, on May 25, 1927. Raspberry...
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    providing rare imagery of a lynching in progress. The pictures were printed and sold as postcards in Waco. Although the lynching was supported by many...
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    lynched. The lynching of Leo Frank is the most well-known case in American history. The lynching of Frank is commonly perceived as the only lynching of...
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    victims of racial lynching, but in the American Southwest, Mexican Americans were also the targets of lynching as well. At the first recorded lynching, in...
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    amended version of the bill which would require "an attempt to do bodily harm" for an act to be considered lynching, noting that lynching is already illegal...
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    was intended to establish lynching as a federal crime. The Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill was re-introduced in subsequent sessions of United States Congress and...
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    Anti-Lynching Bill, 1918 Justice for Victims of Lynching Act, 2018 Lynching in the United States McDaniel, Eric; Moore, Elena (March 29, 2022). "Lynching is...
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    by Side of Son", The Daily Oklahoman, May 26, 1911. "Report of the lynching" (PDF). The Crisis. 2 (3): 99–100. July 1911. "The Oklahoma Lynching" (PDF)...
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    lynching. In the same report, the lynching was described as a "gathering" of "several thousands of the first, best, and even the most law-abiding, of...
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    list of lynching victims in the United States. While the definition has changed over time, lynching is often defined as the summary execution of one or...
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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. Several Ku Klux Klan...
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    Church in Newnan about the lynching. In his speech Rusk stated the Hose lynching was different from the Moore's Ford lynching as Hose had no descendants...
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  • April 2022 lynching of black man in South Africa [2], 2008 lynching of black man in South Africa [3], longstanding and ongoing lynchings of black people...
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    as "the last lynching in California", although Clyde Johnson was lynched near Yreka in August 1935, and the last true California lynching is said to have...
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    were 135 lynchings in Illinois. Anti-lynching bureaus formed to assemble political capital to pass anti-lynching laws. While anti-lynching proponents...
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    physical evidence of rape. The 1920 lynchings are the only known instance of lynching of African-Americans in Minnesota. Twenty other lynchings were recorded...
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    woman begged the mob not to lynch Meadows, as she was unsure if he was the criminal, but the mob went forward with the lynching and killed him near the Pratt...
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  • go to trial. Two weeks after the lynching, a grand jury declined to file charges. While acknowledging that the lynching was a criminal offense, the grand...
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  • American racism and the barbarism of lynching but also the limitations and vulnerabilities of American democracy." Tens of thousands attended his funeral...
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    The race riot resulted in the lynching of Will Brown, a black civilian; the death of two white rioters; the injuries of many Omaha Police Department officers...
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    A lynching postcard is a postcard bearing the photograph of a lynching—a vigilante murder usually motivated by racial hatred—intended to be distributed...
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    The anti-lynching movement was an organized political movement in the United States that aimed to eradicate the practice of lynching. Lynching was used...
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  • 25, 2022). "When is a lynching a lynching?". The Guardian. [Supported by the Pulitzer Center]. Analysis of the 2020 murder of Michael Ronnell Williams...
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    Justice, informally known as the National Lynching Memorial, is a memorial to commemorate the black victims of lynching in the United States. It is intended...
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    Julin, Chris (June 2001). "The other lynching in Duluth". Minnesota Public Radio. Retrieved June 17, 2015. "Lynching in Lester Park". Zenith City Online...
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    Moore's Ford lynchings, also known as the 1946 Georgia lynching, refers to the July 25, 1946, murders of four young African Americans by a mob of white men...
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  • "The Lynching of Joseph H. McCoy" (PDF). alexandriava.gov. Retrieved 1 April 2023. "The McCoy Lynching Case". Washington Times. Washington, District of Columbia...
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    Florida had an especially high number of lynchings of black men in the years before the massacre, including the lynching of Charles Strong and the Perry massacre...
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    the lynching of Wilbur Little in the spring of 1919. Apparent from the table, the vast majority of lynchings took place in the southeast region of the...
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    lynch mob can be clearly seen and that the lynching was being condemned around the country. The Columbia State newspaper, which opposed the lynching,...
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