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Six Negroes Dead After Battle With Citizen's Posse News article regarding the lynching of a family of six African Americans on June 4, 1918...... Read more |
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A Partial Listing of Negroes Lynched in the United States Since 1859 A searchable database..... Read more |
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Emmett Louis "Bobo" Till (July 25, 1941 – August 28, 1955) was an African American boy from Chicago, Illinois, who was murdered[1] at the age of 14 in Money, Mississippi, a small town in the state's Delta region, after reportedly whistling at a white woman. The murder of Emmett Till was noted as one of the leading events that motivated the American Civil Rights Movement.[1] The main suspects were acquitted, but later admitted to the murder...... Read more |
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In early May 1927, Little Rock (Pulaski County) experienced a wave of mob violence that culminated in the lynching of an African American named John Carter. This lynching and the rioting that followed is one of the most notorious incidents of racial violence in the state’s history. This event reveals much about the history of race relations in Little Rock, as well as the state’s struggle with its national image...... Read more |
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Lynching in the United States was the practice of killing people by extrajudicial mob action in the United States of America, chiefly from the late 1700s through the 1950s. This type of murder is most often associated with hanging, although it often included burning and/or various other methods of torture, and only rarely were lynchers punished, or even arrested, for their crimes...... Read more |
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An historical overview of African American lynching, the Klu Klux Klan, and hate crimes in America...... Read more |
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The Press and Lynchings of African Americans, Although there have been many studies of racial biases in the modern media and a host of scholarly investigations of the African American press during the late nineteenth century, there has been virtually no research examining the ways in which the mainstream American press covered the lynching epidemic that swept the South during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries...... Read more |
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Lynching in America: Statistics, Information, Images Lynching in America: Statistics, Information, Images..... Read more |
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Musarium: Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America Website featuring photographs and descriptions from the book Without Sanctuary by Hilton Als and James Allen, with postcards of lynchings in America...... Read more |
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When I was a boy growing up in New Orleans, Louisiana, the word lynching was hardly ever mentioned. My parents only said these "mean" acts happened in the country (rural areas) with white men in white gowns (the KKK). In all my schooling, through high school and on to college, lynching was never part of a lecture or connected with American history...... Read more |
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The Negro Holocaust: Lynching and Race Riots in the United States,1880-1950 The phenomenon of lynching and the major race riots of this period, called the American Dark Ages by historian Rayford W. Logan, will be covered...... Read more |
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An examination of lynching postcards and photographs from the late 19th/early 20th century United States...... Read more |
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Lynching in America: Carnival of Death A persistent and horrifying practice that was rampant throughout the South for decades...... Read more |
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Collection of essays, extracts, and photographs of victims...... Read more |
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