Ell Persons was a black man who was lynched on 22 May 1917, after he was accused of having raped and decapitated a 15-year-old white girl, Antoinette...

providing rare imagery of a lynching in progress. The pictures were printed and sold as postcards in Waco. Although the lynching was supported by many...

paper published the scheduled time and place for the upcoming Lynching of Ell Persons. Despite its Confederate background the paper won a Pulitzer Prize...

victims of racial lynching, but in the American Southwest, Mexican Americans were also the targets of lynching as well. At the first recorded lynching, in...

list of lynching victims in the United States. While the definition has changed over time, lynching is often defined as the summary execution of one or...

The lynching of George Hughes, which led to what is called the Sherman Riot, took place in Sherman, Texas, in 1930. An African-American man accused of rape...

The anti-lynching movement was an organized political movement in the United States that aimed to eradicate the practice of lynching. Lynching was used...

The lynching of Michael Donald in Mobile, Alabama, on March 21, 1981, was one of the last reported lynchings in the United States. Several Ku Klux Klan...

as "the last lynching in California", although Clyde Johnson was lynched near Yreka in August 1935, and the last true California lynching is said to have...

by Side of Son", The Daily Oklahoman, May 26, 1911. "Report of the lynching" (PDF). The Crisis. 2 (3): 99–100. July 1911. "The Oklahoma Lynching" (PDF)...