Lynching - Wikipedia Lynching is an extrajudicial killing by a group It is most often used to characterize informal public executions by a mob in order to punish an alleged or convicted transgressor or to intimidate others
History of Lynching in America - NAACP Hundreds of Black people were lynched based on accusations of other crimes, including murder, arson, robbery, and vagrancy Many victims of lynchings were murdered without being accused of any crime
Lynching in the United States of America, a story Lynching was the widespread occurrence of extrajudicial killings beginning in the pre-Civil War South until the 20th century American Civil Rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s
Lynching In Texas This website represents an ongoing effort to document the lynchings that occurred in Texas between 1882 and 1945 At present, our database includes more than 600 lynchings that were cataloged by the Chicago Tribune (1882-1888), the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (1889-1942), and major newspapers around the nation
Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror After slavery was formally abolished, lynching emerged as a vicious tool of racial control to reestablish white supremacy and suppress Black civil rights More than 4,000 African Americans were lynched across twenty states between 1877 and 1950
Fighting Lynching After 1900 | National Museum of African . . . During the first decade of the 20th century, more than 850 African Americans were lynched Denied an official trial, most victims were dragged from jail cells after being accused of crimes They were then hanged or shot People were rarely prosecuted for their involvement in lynchings