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 White Americans used lynching to terrorize and control Black people in the 19th and early 20th centuries Learn more about the history of this barbaric practice and how NAACP worked to end lynching
Lynching in America - Equal Justice Initiative Explore racial terror lynchings across America Listen to audio stories from generations affected by the history of lynching in America Over a hundred years after Thomas Miles Sr was lynched in Shreveport, Louisiana, his family travels to the South for the first time
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 | The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture Lynching is the killing (by hanging, burning, or torturing) of an individual or individuals, by a group of three or more persons operating outside the legal system in the belief that they have the right to serve justice or to reinforce a tradition or social custom
What is Lynching? - History and Headlines Nor did Americans invent lynching, as people have taken mob rule into their own hands as far back as history goes, but in the United States we date the term “lynching” to a Charles Lynch, who coined the phrase “Lynch’s Law” to mean punishment without trial
Explore The Map | Lynching In America Terror lynchings and other racial violence played a key role in this forced migration of Black Americans to the North and West Many fled in fear for their lives Over 4,000 racial terror lynchings occurred in the U S between 1877 and 1950