the lynching of Austin Callaway. Louis M. Dekmar, the current City Police Chief, is not a native of LaGrange and learned of Callaway's lynching a couple...

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...

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)...

public apology of its police chief and mayor for the city's failure to prevent the 1940 lynching of Austin Callaway, a young black man. Callaway was taken...

Grinberg (January 27, 2017). "'Justice failed Austin Callaway': Town attempts to atone for 1940 lynching". CNN. "Nightly News Full Broadcast (January 27th)"...

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...

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...

was then repeatedly shot. No one was ever convicted of her lynching. These lynchings are examples of the racially motivated mob violence by white people...

lynch mob of about 100 white men from Jackson County heard where he was, and brought him back to Jackson County. The time and place of the lynching were...

decades before to protect Callaway, saying: "I sincerely regret and denounce the role our Police Department played in Austin's lynching, both through our action...

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...

A lynching postcard is a postcard bearing the photograph of a lynching—a vigilante murder usually motivated by racial hatred—intended to be distributed...

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...

lynch mob can be clearly seen and that the lynching was being condemned around the country. The Columbia State newspaper, which opposed the lynching,...

lynch a Negro than to pay him his honest wage. – California Eagle, June 20, 1930 (re: Lynching of Bill Roan) The lynching of George Hughes was one of...

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...

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...

manner". On the last night of her second tour, the London Anti-Lynching Committee was established – reportedly the first anti-lynching organization in the world...

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

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...

after the lynching of Phifer and Crosky, Willie Temple was lynched in a hospital for allegedly fatally wounding Policeman Barbaree. These lynchings were part...

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...

were 13 lynchings in the American state of Texas. Of these 13 attacks, there were 15 people killed. Montgomery County, Texas had the most lynching with three...

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...

Hollings wrote an anti-lynching bill that was signed into law, specifying the death penalty as punishment for lynching. "No further lynchings occurred in South...

The anti-lynching movement was an organized political movement in the United States that aimed to eradicate the practice of lynching. Lynching was used...

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

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...

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...

homes, planting burning crosses and bombs in their yards, mobbing them, lynching them, and massacring them. A sundown town is an all-White community that...