For many African Americans growing up in the South in the 19th and 20th centuries, the threat of lynching was commonplace. The popular image of an angry white mob stringing a black man up to a ...

Extralegal killings as a response to crimes or as an expression of hatred regularly occurred during the Jim Crow era of the late 1800s to mid-1900s. Only one documented lynching occurred in Cape ...

On March 14, 1891, the largest mass lynching in U.S. history occurred when 11 Italian Americans were killed in New Orleans.

The lynching was brought to the attention of the NAACP by an attorney visiting Live Oak over the Christmas holidays. Thurgood Marshall quickly demanded that Governor Spessard Holland call for a ...

Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr. is the last living witness to one of America’s most notorious lynchings. Trump's new SBA chief unleashes 'Day One' priorities to transform agency into 'golden era of ...

BY MASTON MORWICK A plan to install markers at the sites of lynchings in Volusia County sparked some tension among members of ...

For nearly a century, they say the lynching of George Tompkins was swept under the rug. “This is probably one of the stories that very little is known in Indianapolis,” said Leon Bates, a historian ...

A ceremony at Municipal Gardens Family Center honored the life of George Tompkins, a 19-year-old Black man lynched in Indianapolis in 1922.

The civil rights icon received the award for her "outstanding and courageous reporting on the horrific and vicious violence against African Americans during the era of lynching" Joelle Goldstein ...