The Newberry Lynchings of 1916 historical marker (front and back) The Newberry Six lynchings took place in Newberry, Alachua County, Florida, on August...

but changed to Newberry in August of that year. In this period, racial violence against blacks rose in Alachua County, where lynchings took place to enforce...

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...

Southerners. Lynchings in the U.S. reached their height from the 1890s to the 1920s, and they primarily victimized ethnic minorities. Most of the lynchings occurred...

White woman. The 1920 lynchings are the only known instance of lynching of African-Americans in Minnesota. Twenty other lynchings were recorded in Minnesota...

Newberry is a city in Newberry County, South Carolina, United States, in the Piedmont 43 miles (69 kilometers) northwest of Columbia. The charter was adopted...

in the United States Mass racial violence in the United States Newberry Six lynchings Perry race riot Red summer Rosewood massacre Tulsa race Massacre...

information. The lynching is discussed in the 2004 documentary, Linciati: Lynchings of Italians in America, directed by M. Heather Hartley. Lynchings of Italians...

has been installed to memorialize the lynching. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, thousands of lynchings were committed primarily in the Southern...

Deep South; 73 percent of lynchings took place in the Southern United States. Between 1882 and 1903, 125 black-on-black lynchings were recorded in 10 southern...

notorious Harmon Murray. Ten lynchings took place in Newberry, six of them in a mass lynching there in 1916. These lynchings were conducted outside the...

Wright, George C. Racial Violence in Kentucky, 1865–1940: Lynchings, Mob Rule, and "Legal Lynchings", University of Illinois Press, 1990, pp. 123-124 Wright...

women were also lynched. More than 73 percent of lynchings in the post–Civil War period occurred in the Southern states. White lynchings of black people...

Pickard & Morrison 2003, p. 69 Florida State Parks in Alachua County Newberry Six lynchings National Register of Historic Places listings in Alachua County...

were 135 lynchings in Illinois. Anti-lynching bureaus formed to assemble political capital to pass anti-lynching laws. While anti-lynching proponents...

Moore's Ford lynchings was contacted by a group called Come to the Table in Newnan, Georgia, that wanted to commemorate Hose's lynching. Rusk had led...

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,...

lynching postcards themselves, it banned the racist text that often accompanied them, which made "too explicit what was always implicit in lynchings"...

lynch murders of four young blacks in 1918, two of whom were pregnant women, and two male youths in 1942. National newspapers covered the lynchings,...

legacy of racial terror lynchings, racial segregation and Jim Crow, but also present issues of guilt and police violence. The six-acre site includes sculptures...

battled with the lynchings in the South and in the North.[citation needed] List of lynchings and other homicides in Illinois Lynching in the United States...

83.57583°W / 33.85417; -83.57583 The Moore's Ford lynchings, also known as the 1946 Georgia lynching, refers to the July 25, 1946, murders of four young...

owner was murdered, prompting a manhunt which resulted in a series of lynchings in May 1918 in southern Georgia, United States. White people killed at...

middle- and upper-class whites were beginning to disapprove of lynchings, and the belief that lynch mobs were an "expansive luxury" the South could no longer...

outbreak of violence was followed by two more lynchings in Texas, one in Oklahoma, and several lynching attempts. Widespread economic difficulty caused...

when racial violence in Arkansas was rising. During this time period of lynchings, African Americans were removed from politics and silenced. Jim Crow laws...

subsequent lynching of his alleged murderers, Thomas Harold Thurmond and John M. Holmes, sparked widespread political debate. The lynchings were carried...

George C. 1990. Racial Violence in Kentucky, 1865-1940: Lynchings, Mob Rule, and "Legal Lynchings". Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press...

jury heard from only six witnesses, the verdict was delayed because two of the jurors wanted to issue a statement commending the lynch mob. The jury censured...

Cemetery in Duluth, a few rows from where the victims of the 1920 Duluth lynchings would later be buried. In 1993, the Finnish-American cultural society...