The Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill
The Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill refers to a piece of legislation proposed in the United States during the early 20th century. It was named after its...
Category : Lynchings
The 1981 Lynching that Bankrupted an Alabama KKK
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On the night of March 21, 1981, a cross crackled and burned on the lawn of the Mobile County courthouse—the Ku Klux Klan’s grim protest...
Lynching Preachers
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The Role of Religion and Racial Violence in America’s Lynching Era: How black pastors resisted Jim Crow and white pastors incited racial violence. Between 1883...
lynching of Luther Holbert and his wife
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From 1882 to 1944, there were about 4,700 lynchings in the United States; Mississippi led the nation with 573. Of Mississippi’s victims, 93% were African...
The Lynching of Postmaster Frazier B. Baker
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The horrifying tale of how postmaster Frazier Baker and his daughter were lynched, and the home was set on fire In 1897, Frazier B. Baker,...
White Mob Lynched Cleo Wright in Sikeston, Missouri
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In the early hours of Sunday, January 25, 1942, a black man named Cleo Wright was arrested on charges of assaulting a white woman. Wright...
The lynching and torture of blacks in the Jim Crow South weren’t just acts of racism. They were religious rituals.
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The cliché is that Americans have a short memory, but since Saturday, a number of us have been arguing over medieval religious wars and whether they have...
The Lynching of Mary Turner
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The lynching of Mary Turner in 1918 in Lowndes County, Georgia, stands as one of the most horrific episodes of racial violence in American history....
Considering History: The Role of Women in the Lynching Epidemic
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On February 14, Senator Kamala Harris introduced legislation into the Senate that would for the first time in American history make lynching a federal crime....