• Mack Charles Parker (May 20, 1936 – April 24, 1959) was a Black American victim of lynching in the United States. He had been accused of raping a pregnant...
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  • tycoon Mack Calvin (born 1947), American former basketball player Mack Charles Parker (1936–1959), African-American victim of lynching in the US Mack David...
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    the Mississippi House of Representatives Mack Charles Parker, African-American victim of lynching in the United States, accused of raping a pregnant white...
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    Charles Strong was lynched in Mayo, Florida. According to the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary it was the 5th of 61 lynchings during 1922...
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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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  • death a lynching. A white man, Lockwood may have been the only lynching victim in the history of Connecticut and even of New England. Charles Lockwood...
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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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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    Charles Atkins was a 15-year-old African-American boy who was lynched in Davisboro, Washington County, Georgia by a mob on May 18, 1922. According to...
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    the wilderness and lynched Mack; he survived by playing dead. No arrests were ever made. Elisha Harper, 25 years old, was the son of the Rev. T. F. Harper...
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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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    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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    Pearl River County, Mississippi (category Wikipedia articles in need of updating from September 2024)
    act of the Mississippi Legislature utilizing the same land area as its predecessor Pearl County. On the night of April 24, 1959, Mack Charles Parker, an...
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    Machine, a collection of essays edited by Francois-Xavier Gleyzon (Charles University Press, 2010) ISBN 978-80-7308-317-5. David Lynch, 2nd Edition by Michel...
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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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    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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    "America's Strange Fruit | About "Mississippi and the Mob" · Anti-Lynching Booklet "Mississippi and the Mob"". lynching.omeka.net. Retrieved March 24, 2023....
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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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • Britain Herald reported that he was lynched in Lake Jennie Jewell, in Orange County. Mack survived the lynching attempt and fled Florida, ultimately...
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    Strange Fruit (category Works about lynching in the United States)
    The song protests the lynching of Black Americans with lyrics that compare the victims to the fruit of trees. Such lynchings had reached a peak in the...
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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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