In the context of racism in the United States, racism against African Americans dates back to the colonial era, and continues to be a persistent issue in American society in the 21st century.
White segregationists (foreground) trying to prevent Black people from swimming at a "Whites only" beach in St. Augustine, Florida in 1964
Reproduction of a handbill advertising a slave auction in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1769
A photograph of Gordon showing the scars accumulated from whipping during his enslavement
Ashley's Sack, a cloth that recounts a slave sale separating a mother and her daughter. The sack belonged to a nine-year-old girl, Ashley. It was a parting gift from her mother, Rose, after Ashley had been sold. Rose filled the sack with a dress, braid of her hair, pecans, and "my love always".
Lynching
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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. Two of the accused men are still hanging while the third is on the ground.
September Massacres of 1792, in which Parisian mobs killed hundreds of royalist prisoners