The Lynching of Joel Woodson
Joel Woodson of Omaha, Nebraska was lynched by a mob in Green River, Wyoming on December 10, 1918, at the Union Pacific Railroad yard. He...
Category : Lynchings
The Lynching of Leo Frank
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In 1913, Leo Frank was convicted of murdering Mary Phagan, a 13-year-old employee of the Atlanta pencil factory that Frank managed. After Georgia’s governor commuted...
The Lynching of Will Cato & Paul Reed
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A Dark Chapter in Georgia’s Racial History In August 1904, the small town of Statesboro, Georgia, became the epicenter of one of the era’s most...
The lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, 1930
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On a hot August night in 1930, a crowd gathered in front of an Indiana jail — men, women, and children shouting and jeering, demanding...
Emmett Till
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Emmett Louis Till was born on July 25, 1941, in Chicago, Illinois, to Mamie Carthan Till and Louis Till. Growing up on the South Side...
Strange Fruit
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Billie Holiday’s 1939 song about racist lynchings stunned audiences and redefined popular music. In an extract from 33 Revolutions Per Minute, his history of protest...
The History of Lynchings in The United States
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Lynching in the United States represents one of the darkest chapters in the nation’s racial history—a form of extrajudicial violence where mobs publicly executed individuals...