The Lynching of Norris Dendy
On July 4, 1933, a white mob in Clinton, South Carolina, dragged 35-year-old Norris Dendy from his cell in the local jail, brutally beat him,...
Category : Lynchings
On June 27, 1911, a large mob of several hundred unmasked white men in Walton County, Georgia, lynched two Black men, Tom Allen and Joe Watts.
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The killings occurred after local judge Charles H. Brand declined offers of protection from state troops, despite knowing for weeks that mob violence was likely....
The Lynch Law: From Revolutionary Frontier Justice to Racial Terror
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The term “Lynch Law” (later “lynching”) occupies a dark and complex place in American history. Its origins lie in the patriotic zeal and wartime exigencies...
Charles Lynch
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Charles Lynch was a Virginia planter, justice of the peace, politician, and militia colonel whose extrajudicial actions during the American Revolutionary War originated the term...
George Meadows: Lynched in Jefferson County, Alabama, After a Flawed Accusation
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George Meadows, an African American man and recent arrival to the Pratt Mines area in Jefferson County, Alabama, was lynched by a mob of white...
The Federal Anti-Lynching Legislation: A Century-Long Struggle for Justice
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Lynching—the extrajudicial killing of individuals, often by mobs, typically as a form of racial terror—cast a long shadow over American history, particularly in the post-Reconstruction...
Lynch Mobs: Extrajudicial Violence, Racial Terror, & Mob Justice Across History
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A lynch mob refers to a group of people who take the law into their own hands to punish, often lethally, an individual accused (rightly...
Nine Black Men Lynched in One Day: The 1908 Sabine County Massacre
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On June 22, 1908, a white mob in Sabine County, Texas, carried out one of the most brutal episodes of racial violence in the state’s...
Black Man Lynched in Alabama for Failing to Call a White Man “Mr.”
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On June 21, 1940, in Luverne, Alabama, a trivial act of speech cost 26-year-old Jesse Thornton his life. Thornton, a Black resident of the small...
The Duluth Lynching of 1920: A Tragic Chapter in Minnesota History
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On the evening of June 15, 1920, a white mob in Duluth, Minnesota, lynched three young Black men—Elias Clayton, Elmer Jackson, and Isaac McGhie—all in...