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  • lynching - Reference Center

    Lynching, unlawfully hanging or otherwise killing a person by mob action. The term is derived from the older term lynch law, which is most likely named after either Capt. William Lynch (1742–1820), of Pittsylvania co., Va., or Col. Charles Lynch... more

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  • About Lynching

    Lynching is the practice whereby a mob--usually several dozen or several hundred persons--takes the law into its own hands in order to injure and kill a ...

    www.english.illinois.edu/Maps/poets/g_l/lynching/lync... - Similar

  • Journal E: Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America

    Website featuring photographs and descriptions from the book Without Sanctuary by Hilton Als and James Allen, with postcards of lynchings in America.

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  • Lynching Statistics

    The Negro Holocaust: Lynching and Race Riots in the U. S., 1880-1950 ... Without Sanction: Photographs and Postcards of Lynching in America (80 images) ...

    www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/shipp/lynch... - Similar

  • American_Lynching

    This documentary explores events and attitudes indigenous to the Northern and Southern states that either condoned or condemned lynching as a practice. ...

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  • History of Lynching in the United States, Jana Evans Braziel

    There are "2805 [documented] victims of lynch mobs killed between 1882 and 1930 in ten southern states. Although mobs murdered almost 300 white men and ...

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  • Lynchings in America

    1930 lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith in Marion, IN When I was a boy growing up in New Orleans, Louisiana, the word lynching was hardly ever ...

    www.liu.edu/CWIS/CWP/library/african/2000/lynching.htm - Similar

  • New Georgia Encyclopedia: Lynching

    More than 450 documented lynchings occurred in Georgia alone. Lynching refers to the illegal killing of a person by a group of others. ...

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