Lynching of Laura and L.D. Nelson – 1911
On May 25, 1911, a horrific act of violence took place in Okemah, Oklahoma. Laura and L.D. Nelson, a mother and son, was lynched by...
Category : Lynchings
The lynching of Frazier Baker
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On the evening of February 22, 1898, Frazier Baker, the postmaster for Lake City, South Carolina, was lynched. The brutal and senseless act of violence...
Duluth lynchings of 1920
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The Duluth lynchings of 1920 refer to a tragic incident of racial violence that occurred in Duluth, Minnesota, in June 1920. The incident involved the...
The Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill
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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...
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...