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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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