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Lynching is an extrajudicial killing by a group. It is most often used to characterize informal public executions by a mob in order to punish an alleged or convicted transgressor or to intimidate othe
The lynching of African American William "Froggie" James in Cairo, Illinois, on November 11, 1909. A crowd of thousands watched the lynching.
Postcard of the 1920 Duluth, Minnesota lynchings. The bodies of two of the accused men are still hanging while the body of the third accused man is lying on the ground.
September Massacres of 1792, in which Parisian mobs killed hundreds of royalist prisoners
Lynching is the occurrence of extrajudicial killings that began in the United States' pre–Civil War South in the 1830s and had mostly ended by time of the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s,
Lynching
…the period after the Reconstruction era, especially during the nadir of American race relations. Black people are thought to be the primary victims of lynching in the U.S. (about 72% of the total). In Europe, lynching took a very different form. In the late 18th and in the 19th century, Europe went through various revolution…
The body of George Meadows, lynched near the Pratt Mines in Jefferson County, Alabama, on January 15, 1889
Lynching of John Willie Clark in Cartersville, Georgia, September 1930, after killing Police Chief J. B. Jenkins
Lynching of Jesse Washington in Waco, Texas, on May 15, 1916. He was repeatedly lowered and raised onto a fire for about two hours. A professional photographer took pictures of the lynching as it unfolded.
This 1867 Thomas Nast cartoon called Southern Justice advocates for military intervention to prevent white terrorism in the South.