Lynching

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• About Lynching Collection of essays, extracts, and photographs of victims.
• Minnesota Historical Society: Duluth Lynchings On June 15th 1920, several young black men were arrested, charged with raping a white woman. Later three of them were killed by a mob. Background and historical documents covering the legal proceedings and incarcerations.
• Wikipedia: Emmett Till 14 year old black boy killed by two men after being accused of flirting with a white woman - the wife of one of the killers. An article covering his childhood, the incident that led to his murder, the funeral and reaction to his open casket, the trial and the effect the murder had on the civil rights movement.
• Lynching in America: Statistics, Information, Images Statistics given include race, state, year and alleged offence. Essay written by Robert A. Gibson at Yale, entitled The Negro Holocaust.
• Wikipedia: Lynching in the United States Article covering the history and civil rights implications of this type of vigilantism. Includes pictures of hangings.
• New Georgia Encyclopedia: Lynching An article examining the state's part in the violence from the year 1882 till 1930. Discusses the victims, geographical distribution and some of the notorious cases.
• The Mary Turner Project May 1918, South Georgia. The killing of a slave owner by one of his slaves sparked fury, culminating in the torture and killing of this lady and her unborn child for speaking out about her husband's death. Information about the other victims and the work of the project which includes trying to launch a searchable database of documented lynchings in the USA.
• Tampa Bay Times: Spectacle: The Lynching of Claude Neal Article about a 23 year old black man mutilated and killed for the alleged rape and murder of a white woman.
• The Lynching of L.Q. Ivy Article telling the story of the burning to death, by mob, of a 17 year old black man accused of the rape and battery of a white woman in the Mississippi Delta, September 18th, 1925.
• BBC: Indian Man Lynched Over Beef Rumours An article about a man and his son in Dadri, India who were kicked and stoned by an angry mob following an announcement at a local temple that the family were storing and eating beef, the meat of the sacred cow. The man died and his son was seriously wounded.
• The Telegraph: Madagascar Lynching Victim Pleaded Innocence An article about the beating and burning to death of a Frenchman, who, along with two others, was accused of the sexual abuse and murder of an eight year old local boy.