Lynch Mobs: Extrajudicial Violence, Racial Terror, & Mob Justice Across History
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...
Category : Lynchings
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...
The Lynching of Henry Argo in Chickasha, Oklahoma (May 31, 1930)
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On May 31, 1930, a large white mob of more than 1,000 men and boys—some as young as 12—stormed the Grady County Jail in Chickasha,...
Mack Charles Parker
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On April 24–25, 1959, in Pearl River County, Mississippi, 23-year-old Mack Charles Parker—a Black Army veteran and truck driver—was abducted from his jail cell by...
The Last American Lynching: Michael Donald’s 1981 Murder by the Ku Klux Klan and the Mother’s Lawsuit That Bankrupted a Hate Empire
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On the night of March 21, 1981, in Mobile, Alabama, 19-year-old Michael Donald—a young Black man with no criminal record or involvement in drugs—became the...
The Lynching of Rubin Stacy
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A Grim Chapter in Florida’s History On July 19, 1935, in the midst of the Great Depression, a 30-year-old Black tenant farmer named Rubin Stacy...
The Costigan-Wagner Anti-Lynching Bill
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A Crusade Stalled by Southern Fury In the shadow of the Great Depression, as America grappled with economic ruin, a darker crisis festered in the...
The Emmett Till Antilynching Act
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Justice Delayed, But Not Denied In a landmark moment for American civil rights, President Joe Biden signed the Emmett Till Antilynching Act into law on...