The blacks lynched accounted for 72.7 percent of the people lynched.
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"African Americans have [been] lynched, other people have been lynched throughout history," Graham said.
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"African Americans have (been) lynched, other people have been lynched throughout history," he said Tuesday.
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Around the sametime African Americans were lynched in the south, hundreds of people of Mexican descent were lynched as well.
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That county, Leflore County in Mississippi, lynched more black people than any other county in Mississippi, and Mississippi lynched more black people than any other state in the country.
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President Donald Trump complained he is being lynched in a tweet Tuesday that brought rapid condemnation from Democratic lawmakers — particularly those who were themselves once in danger of being lynched.
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Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, who said," African-Americans were lynched, other people have been lynched throughout history ... that's exactly what's going on in the US House of Representatives right now".
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We had an 80% rise in hate crimes against Muslims between 2014 and 2019, when Muslims were lynched on suspicion of eating beef, Muslims were lynched on suspicion of marrying a Hindu girl.
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Black officeholders and black voters were threatened, beaten and lynched.
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And, perhaps, a relative or two of Jamey's were lynched.
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Antonio Rodríguez was lynched in Texas in 1910, burned alive.
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In the north, Muslims suspected of killing cows get lynched.
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Wasn't no Communist lynched my poppa or raped my mamma.
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" From The Brooklyn Daily World in 1891: "This Brute Lynched.
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Dancers around Mr. Harder tilt their heads, as if lynched.
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A lot of people have been lynched throughout the world.
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The black people who were terrorized & lynched in its name?
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He was lynched by two men, not a white mob.
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HERE'S THE RUNDOWNBachelor In Paradise: Producers' Close WatchBrody Jenner: Lynched!
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Close to 6,000 people have been lynched since he took office.
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Does he not know that thousands of African Americans were lynched?
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But between 1882 and 1931, there were 3,318 black people lynched.
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"I'd be lynched if I changed anything about that," says Stubbs.
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A mob brutally beat, burned, lynched, and then dismembered his body.
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She is lynched, and nonwhite miners are driven out of town.
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"My father has been publicly lynched in the media," she said.
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He was later kidnapped, tortured, lynched and dumped in a river.
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She worried about getting lynched or brutalized when she walked in public.
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In practice, this meant a person could be lynched for any reason.
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In March, two cattle traders were lynched in the state of Jharkhand.
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Imagine how they'd react if Trump called for Clyburn to be lynched.
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"They can feel his absence," said the lynched brothers' mother, Dulce María Montero.
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At least 25 people have been lynched and dozens wounded in the attacks.
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There is also an image of a lynched body hanging from a tree.
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"A Woman Lynched" read a headline in The New York Times on Aug.
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Too busy being raped and lynched to care about who won Best Cinematographer.
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Around 50 people were killed; two police officers were lynched in the street.
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We were too busy being raped and lynched to worry about best cinematography.
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Till was lynched in 1955, his death helped spark the civil rights movement.
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Nugent called President Obama "a subhuman mongrel" and suggested that he be lynched.
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One of the black men accused of the crime was beaten and lynched.
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In 1916, the black teen-ager Jesse Washington was lynched in Waco, Texas.
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And then black people were lynched every single day between 1890 and 1920.
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Not murdered but lynched, their deaths live-streamed to the sound of laughter.
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A local mob announced that he was to be lynched the next day.
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In some cases, the victims were lynched by crowds of almost 3,000 people.
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The list goes on: Muslims lynched for transporting cows, an animal Hindus revere.
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In fact, the only woman, Josefa Segovia, ever lynched in California was Mexican.
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Whites used to have picnics and parties under the corpses of lynched black men.
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Tony Todd plays the vengeful ghost of a man lynched by a racist mob.
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In August a mob there lynched a man wrongly suspected of carrying a bomb.
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One of its posts featured a cartoon image of a Jewish man being lynched.
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In India, rumors on WhatsApp reportedly resulted in a group of men being lynched.
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I was 13 when Emmett Till was lynched for "flirting" with a white woman.
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And frankly, if the membership lists had been released, people could have been lynched.
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The three black men lynched were close to the girl — her preacher, the Rev.
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Here, we're looking at a brutal image called "Bomb, Tree, Eagle, Lynched Victims" [1967].
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Videos of soldiers being humiliated, beaten and almost lynched are circulating on social media.
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Her grandmother was concerned that she'd get hurt, that she could even get lynched.
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Last month, two Muslims were lynched in eastern Jharkhand state on charges of cattle theft.
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In March of this year, suspected cattle traders Muhammed Majloom and Azad Khan were lynched.
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Between 1880 and 1940, Cone says, an estimated 5,000 black men and women were lynched.
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The then 27-year-old was falsely accused of burning the Quran before being lynched.
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Laura Wood was lynched in 1930 North Carolina after being accused of stealing a ham.
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Black people were lynched for doing anything from annoying a white woman to simply voting.
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This happened in the county that lynched six African-Americans during the Jim Crow era.
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Almost immediately, locals in nine villages lynched outsiders they suspected of coming for their children.
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People are being lynched by mobs over rumors that they keep beef in their fridges.
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Some of those names were of African Americans lynched for having the temerity to vote.
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She joked about public hangings, in a state that lynched more African-Americans than any other.
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Another black man accused of assault — his name is lost to history — was lynched in 1891.
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Charles Lewis was lynched in 22018 for refusing to empty the pockets of his Army uniform.
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Worse than the 50-year period when at least one black person was lynched every week?
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And then there is a painful, hard-to-look-at scene of Black bodies, dead, lynched.
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He was fortunate: an 18-year-old was lynched after robbing a pregnant woman in 2014.
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Perry was lynched the following day, according to several sources, including Jason Byrne's Florida History blog.
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Bruce Tisdale was lynched in Georgetown, where I got married, where my wife's family still lives.
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Members of minority communities, accused of being disrespectful to cows, sacred to Hindus, have been lynched.
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The anti-lynching display includes a photograph of the NAACP's "A Man was Lynched Yesterday" banner.
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In 1920, three African-American men were lynched before thousands of white people in Duluth, Minn.
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" Ms. Irvine: "Black lives didn't matter then in 1912 when they lynched my cousin John Moore.
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But they also went after other victims: Latinos were lynched, as were Chinese laborers and Jews.
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Nearby, a mob of white people lynched nearly three dozen Chinese men and boys in 1871.
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I do not know where I may go and be lynched today, by the police itself.
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We were too busy being raped and lynched then to care about who won best cinematographer.
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Dozens of Muslims have been lynched by angry Hindu mobs, with the perpetrators often walking free.
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An ostentatious display of wealth like this could easily of gotten them lynched in the South.
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Each sample of soil has a date of a lynching and the name of the person lynched.
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Anti-Italian and anti-Catholic prejudice swirled: 11 Italians had been lynched in New Orleans in 1891.
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The march turned violent when protesters almost lynched four men they believed were spying for the Zetas.
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If I had stayed I either would have been lynched or put in jail for 14 years.
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"We were too busy being raped and lynched to care about who won best cinematographer," he said.
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Jones's mother, Melissa McKinnies, argued that her son was "lynched" in a story that quickly went viral.
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They have never been and will never be raped or sold or lynched because they are Black.
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At the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum in Jackson, for instance, tablets memorialize Mississippians who had been lynched.
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Was it when the country looked the other way as white supremacists lynched thousands of black people?
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Twenty-one-year-old black men in America, now they've been lynched in another kind of way.
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One rape suspect was nearly lynched a few days later on his way to court in Indore.
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He said his father had been "lynched" by the media for as long as he can remember.
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So the ADL was founded in 1913 around the time that Leo Frank was lynched outside of Atlanta.
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When lynching was at its height, mobs did not limit their attacks to men — women were lynched too.
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Between 1877 and 1950, more than 4,000 black people were lynched in the United States, the EJI found.
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It wasn't right when peoplel hung lynched Obama effigies, just as what Kathy Griffin did isn't right now.
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In the upper left-hand corner of the photo, another piece of artwork depicts black people being lynched.
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The Klan and other white supremacists terrorized and murdered former slaves; nativists lynched Italian immigrants and shot Jews.
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But historians have documented that many black men who were lynched had not even been accused of rape.
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In 1955, Emmett Till was lynched in Mississippi after being falsely accused of flirting with a white woman.
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Elizabeth Lawrence was lynched in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1933 for reprimanding white children who threw rocks at her.
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Dozens of men, women, and children were lynched in a massacre in East St. Louis, Illinois, in 1917.
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Even more jarring than the names on the wall are the reasons some of the dead were lynched.
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Look closer and you see the body of a lynched black man hanging on the branch between them.
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You will be lynched, destroyed, caricatured by a committee of the U.S. Senate rather than hung from a tree.
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Last year, angry mobs who fell for WhatsApp rumors about child abductors lynched more than 45 people across India.
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The episode very notably ends with a white man, the Tulsa police chief, lynched and hanging from a tree.
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The man is a Muslim, one of several score of "them" that similar mobs have lynched in recent years.
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On April 4, 1918, a crowd of drunken people lynched a German American named Robert Prager in Collinsville, Illinois.
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You will be lynched, destroyed, caricatured by a committee of the U.S. Senate, rather than hung from a tree.
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The flag waved unadorned, just black and white, with a word that seemed to invade all my senses: lynched.
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No one ever got lynched and thought, Well, at least this will lead inexorably to the civil-rights movement.
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The story about the Canadian man who was "lynched" by a mob in Peru has taken yet another turn.
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In an effort to express my passion for preserving all historical monuments, I acknowledge the word 'lynched' was wrong.
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Lincoln does single-handedly prevent two white men from being lynched, but issues of race and slavery never arise.
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You will be lynched, destroyed, caricatured by a committee of the US Senate rather than hung from a tree.
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Around the same day as the armistice, a young African-American named William Bird was lynched in Sheffield, Ala.
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In the US between 1848 and 1928, thousands of Mexicans were lynched, along with Native Americans, Italians and Chinese.
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Nobody thought anything of it until a black graduate student pointed out that it looked like they'd been lynched.
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This was during the darkest days of segregation when blacks were being lynched and had no representation in government.
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In 1987, the group secured a $7 million victory against an Alabama KKK group after its members lynched someone.
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"I can't imagine how this is happening in our country," said Pablo Copado, a brother of the two lynched men.
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Since America was born, Black men and women have been lynched for having sex or for being accused of it.
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Thousands, most of them black, were lynched The violence and horror of lynchings in the United States cannot be overstated.
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By another measure, black people accounted for about 73% of those lynched between 1882 and 1968, according to the NAACP.
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Instead, however, he used his first tweet about lynching to complain that he is being lynched by an impeachment inquiry.
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Nearly 600 people were lynched from Reconstruction to the 1960s, the highest number in the country, according to the NAACP.
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My father opened his medical practice in Marietta, where Leo Frank was lynched in 1915 at the age of 31.
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Not long ago, one of his men sought medical help for chest pain but fled in fear of being lynched.
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"MPs wouldn't be able to leave a secure zone in SW1, they would be lynched," one told the Financial Times.
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"Just walking down the street being who you are and you were lynched and dragged and hung from a tree."
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" In 18943 The Saint Paul Daily Globe ran the headline "Deserved It All: A Brutal Negro Lynched by Indignant Farmers.
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The names of the different counties and the people who were lynched in those counties are engraved on the columns.
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Mr. Modi's government is accused of turning a blind eye to the scores of Muslim men lynched by Hindu mobs.
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It is named after Emmett Till, a 28503-year-old African American boy who was lynched in 22020 in Mississippi.
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White vigilantes lynched Hazel and Mary Turner, a black couple in Lowndes County, Ga., in May; Ms. Turner was pregnant.
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Emmett Till, a 14-year-old African-American boy, was lynched in 1955 by two white men in Money, Miss.
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At times, when black men were lynched in the US, their penises were cut off and stuffed down their own throats.
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Dread Scott's "A Man Was Lynched by Police Yesterday" (2015) was acquired by the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego.
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After two alleged attacks on white women, a black suspect was lynched and two more were hanged after a short trial.
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Thankfully, the Israeli military, who are the good guys in this encounter, were there to protect innocent civilians from being lynched.
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Last month a Hindu crowd lynched a 24-year old Tabrez Ansari in the eastern city of Jharkhand, igniting nationwide protests.
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In the final days of the Ottoman Empire, Kemal was captured and lynched by nationalists fighting to establish the Turkish state.
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Meanwhile, in April, in another town, another student—Mashal Khan—was accused of blaspheming on Facebook and lynched by his classmates.
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In a statement, police said a second woman who had a bomb was "lynched by an irate mob in the vicinity".
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A mob in Amarah lynched the local commander of Asaib Ahl al-Haq, a militia that considers Mr Khamenei its leader.
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We were lynched, terrorized in our own country, and denied the rights that we were entitled to in our own Constitution.
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Some had even suggested that the artist himself should be lynched; in response, the police put the gallery under special alert.
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In 1889, for example, The Michigan Herald ran the headline: A BRUTE LYNCHED ————- A Michigan Mob's Vengeance on a Colored Ravisher.
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The search parties might have lynched Higginbotham right then and there, but the Pontotoc County sheriff sent him to Jackson, Miss.
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She swung into action in 1920, after a jeering mob in Duluth stormed a jail and lynched three black circus workers.
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Lacy Mitchell was lynched in Thomasville, Georgia, in 21887 for testifying against a white man accused of raping a black woman.
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Jim Eastman was lynched in Brunswick, Tennessee, in 1887 for not allowing a white man to beat him in a fight.
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Due process has protected all Americans for decades — the days of being publicly lynched for unsubstantiated claims or assaults are over!
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It continued from the 1880s until after the end of World War I, with more than 100 people lynched each year.
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One woman had an ancestor who was lynched in Georgia in 1912; the other had relatives who helped in the killing.
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The bill is named for Emmett Till, the 14-year-old African American boy who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955.
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The legislation is named after Emmett Till, a 14-year-old African American boy who was lynched in 1955 in Mississippi.
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Reeves could have been killed as a child in Tulsa; he could have been lynched as an adult in New York.
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Despite his Middle-England surname, his great-grandfather was a Turkish politician, Ali Kemal, who was lynched by pro-Ataturk nationalists.
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We had real things to protest; you know, we're too busy being raped and lynched to care about who won best cinematographer.
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They are all caricatures — even the black man who is being lynched — his face a rictus of pain and fear and agony.
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Tim Bupp, a 62-year-old South Carolina pastor, held a sign that showed a lynched black person hanging from a tree.
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Monroe Work Today's main feature is a map of the country, which meticulously marks locations in the U.S. where people were lynched.
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Richard Wilkerson was lynched in 22018 for defending a black woman who had been assaulted by a white man at a dance.
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"I think back to Emmett Till's mom, actually," James said, referring to the black teen who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955.
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"Mello did those things because he blatantly hoped I'd be recognized by the public and eventually get lynched or assaulted," she said.
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Jenner can be seen lynched, hanging from a tree, the victim of a hate crime that was often perpetrated against Black citizens.
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It features a walkway with 800 worn steel columns hanging from the roof, engraved with the names of people who were lynched.
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"I could be lynched right now and nobody would do anything about it," said Abdul Adnan, a Muslim who sells drill bits.
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My grandfather was 19 when two black men named Juster Jennings and Sills Spinks were lynched in his Alabama county in 1920.
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In Mr. Modi's case, supporters of his party circulated fake videos in 2013 of two Hindus being lynched by a Muslim mob.
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But I cannot imagine what it must be like to not just lose your child, but to find out he's been lynched.
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" It included an image of an old newspaper's headline: "John Hartfield Will Be Lynched By Ellisville Mob at 5 O'Clock This Afternoon.
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When Muslims are lynched, Modi typically says nothing, and, since he rarely holds press conferences, he is almost never asked about them.
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In July, a Rohingya man who was allowed out for a court appearance in Sittwe was lynched by an ethnic Rakhine mob.
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That's when we learn the much talked-about mystery piece is a painting of a nude Nola being lynched by her own braids.
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Peter Bazemore was accused of rape in 20183; he was lynched before an investigation revealed the rapist was a white man in blackface.
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In 1922, Elias Villareal Zarate, a man of Mexican descent, was lynched in Texas after being accused of fighting with a white coworker.
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The abstracted, impasto painting depicts the open casket of African-American teenager Emmett Till, who was savagely beaten, disfigured, and lynched in 1955.
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This is most evident in the closer of "Bone Orchard," when lead character Shadow Moon is lynched by new god Technical Boy's minions.
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The Koch-funded Republican freshman represents a district where Emmett Till, 14, was lynched in 1955 for allegedly whistling at a white woman.
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I was being lynched by eight people because I was chasing a girl who grabbed drugs off the seat and took off running.
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After his laborer father was nearly lynched, the young man fled, and eventually stowed away on a freighter that deposited him in Scotland.
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In the town where the white mob had lynched blacks to end their freedom, the black victims had improvised institutions to enable it.
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In the early 20th century, the NAACP used to hang a flag outside their New York headquarters the day after someone was lynched.
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I made "A Man Was Lynched by Police Yesterday" in response to the police murder of Walter Scott in South Carolina last year.
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Kamala Harris tweeted Thursday honoring the legacy of Till, who was lynched after allegedly offending a white woman in her family's grocery store.
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CreditCreditJoshua Rashaad McFadden for The New York Times Tina Washington can't remember being told that white men lynched her granddaddy back in 1935.
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The Hindu-Muslim fault line in India can be very raw, and in recent years several Muslims have been lynched by Hindu mobs.
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Last year, the university student Mashal Khan was lynched by classmates after he was accused of putting some blasphemous posts on social media.
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A Muslim family who fled their home this week and dared to come back to collect their things on Thursday was nearly lynched.
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White America is connected, whether it wishes to be or not, to a history that has shot and lynched black folk into silence.
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In 1923, a black janitor at Mizzou named James T. Scott was lynched before standing trial for allegedly raping a white professor's daughter.
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Six years before Holiday recorded "Strange Fruit," Waters began performing "Supper Time," a song about a woman discovering her husband has been lynched.
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"I could be lynched right now and nobody would do anything about it," Abdul Adnan, a Muslim businessman, told The New York Times.
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The El Paso Herald reported that Mexico's consul in Denver investigated the episode and concluded that the mob had lynched the wrong men.
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At the prison, the ghost of a boy who was lynched after escaping years ago joins the family and becomes our third narrator.
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Before the case could go to trial, a mob invaded the local jail and lynched Moss, along with two other men, according to PBS.
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While police are still investigating exactly what happened, it's believed several prop malfunctions occurred during a scene in which Schumacher's character was being lynched.
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White men lynched Jeff Brown in 353 in Cedarbluff, Mississippi, for accidentally bumping into a white girl as he ran to catch a train.
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Fourteen-year-old Emmett Till, as one vivid example, was lynched in Mississippi after a white woman claimed he made a pass at her.
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Another sign referred to Emmett Till, the 14-year-old boy who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955, and whose killers were later acquitted.
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His menus feature a drawing of a Klan member relaxing on a hammock made of two lynched black corpses tied together at the feet.
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Sure, the sound was mono and you had to listen to a lot of country music, but it was way better than getting lynched.
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He hadn't been lynched, and when most people think of lynching in this country, they do not think of people who look like him.
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Johnson's great-grandfather was an opposition figure in the late Ottoman period and was lynched during Turkey's War of Independence in the early 1920s.
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When Bessie relates the time she nearly was lynched, Ms. Pressley's clenched fist betrays her fury at the injustice she fought all her life.
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By now, diehards around the globe will be anxiously eyeing their mailboxes, awaiting the arrival of Svartidauði's new EP, Hideous Silhouettes of Lynched Gods.
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She had an uncle who was almost lynched in the early 20th century for standing up to a white man in an Oklahoma store.
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Three nights later, the woman's husband and his brother snatched young Till out of bed, carried him off into the darkness and lynched him.
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In 2010, I met a woman, Doria Johnson, whose great-great-grandfather Anthony Crawford was lynched in Abbeville, South Carolina, in the early 1900s.
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"I know it's a little harsh, but I think these kind of people need to be brought in public and lynched," said Jaya Bachchan.
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Will is nearly lynched by other officers—and when he pulls on a hood, to fight crime anonymously, he continues to wear the noose.
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According to the NAACP, over 3,446 black people were lynched between 1882 and 1968, accounting for 72.7 percent of all recorded lynchings at the time.
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In the early 1920s in Cartersville, Georgia, white people lynched two black people who lived on the same street as 15-year-old George Wofford.
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According to the Equal Justice Initiative, a nonprofit advocacy group focused on criminal and racial justice, 185 black Americans were reported lynched in South Carolina.
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"In an effort to express my passion for preserving all historical monuments, I acknowledge the word 'lynched' was wrong," Oliver said in a written response.
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Flying above Jack Shainman's gallery in NYC is a flag by the artist Dread Scott that reads: A MAN WAS LYNCHED BY THE POLICE YESTERDAY.
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About 186 black people were lynched between 1877 and 1950, according to the Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology at the University of Washington.
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Thousands of African-American and Mexican-American men were lynched without the due process afforded them by Constitution in the 80 years that followed Reconstruction.
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" Emails and phone calls from the website's readers flooded the gallery; Scott himself received an email from someone telling him, "I hope you get lynched.
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Because we had real things to protest at the time...[People were too busy] being raped and lynched to care about who won Best Cinematographer.
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That black men would cease to be lynched by mobs throughout the South would have seemed farfetched when Ida B. Wells took on the task.
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Yesterday, he hung his flag piece "A Man Was Lynched by Police Yesterday" (2015) outside the For Freedoms show at New York's Jack Shainman Gallery.
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But if you don't do that, you could be lynched, your family could be killed, you might be denied food or clothes for your baby.
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They demanded he be prosecuted or lynched outright for citing a verse of the Quran that warns Muslims against taking Christians and Jews as allies.
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A United Airlines customer has complained that the airline didn't remove a fellow passenger who wore a T-shirt that suggested that journalists be lynched.
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The bill is named after Emmett Till, a 14-year-old black teen from Chicago who was lynched in 1955 while visiting family in Mississippi.
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Mr Hoock digs up detailed accounts of Loyalists being variously ostracised, tarred and feathered, choked with pig manure, branded with GR (for George Rex) and lynched.
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The inclusion of black women who were lynched is an important step in the long struggle to acknowledge the violent history of racial and gender inequality.
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In 1942, a smaller group of vigilantes lynched two adolescent boys, aged 14 and 15, for allegedly attempting to rape a 15-year-old white girl.
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In her statement, Rahman said the government should instead be holding to account those who have lynched alleged blasphemers rather than arresting young men accused online.
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New Delhi (CNN)Indian police arrested 000 people after a man was lynched by a huge mob incensed by rumors of child kidnapping spread on WhatsApp.
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Artists have long created work that points to injustice and inequality, from Picasso's "Guernica" (1937) to Dread Scott's "A Man Was Lynched by Police Yesterday" (2015).
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Another display is a seemingly everlasting slide show listing some of the more than 4,000 African-Americans known to have been lynched between 1877 and 1950.
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Mr. Valdez wanted to call attention to the thousands of Mexicans who scholars estimate were lynched in America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Elias Clayton, Elmer Jackson, and Isaac McGhie, 1920 (three circus workers accused of rape without any evidence, lynched in Duluth, Minnesota; no punishment for their murders).
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Are we absolutely certain Judd Crawford is in league with the types of racist cops who nearly lynched Will back when he first joined the force?
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"Harriet's Closet" continues outdoors with a fiberglass figure made to look like bronze, standing in a sea of quilts and not far from a lynched figure.
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She notes that the rate of African Americans being killed today is similar to the rate of African Americans being lynched in the early 20th century.
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But U Ko Ni had been outspoken regarding the rise of Buddhist nationalism within Myanmar, where violent flashpoints have seen Muslims lynched over the past several years.
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Handmaids, like black slaves before them, are not allowed to read, need passes to go outside, and can be publicly lynched for perceived crimes against the regime.
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A generation earlier, in 1912, a black teenager named Brooks Gordon was lynched for allegedly shooting at a white woman while she drew water from a spring.
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"[T]his week the 10th Trans Woman of Color to be lynched this year was found ... in Tampa FL," Cox wrote on Instagram on July 22, 2015.
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The brutal decades preceding the Great Migration — when a black person was lynched on average every four days — were given a name by the historian Rayford Logan.
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The death in April of Mashal Khan, a Pakistani college student brutally lynched by his fellow students after being spuriously tagged as a blasphemer, made global headlines.
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Historically, African Americans have fought bravely in every war since the nation's founding, only to see black uniformed former soldiers beaten, lynched, and Jim Crowed back home.
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However, I am severely offended by the continual comparison of a sexual preference, a gender preference, to the plight of an enslaved, raped, lynched, brutalized, oppressed people.
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On Sunday, police arrested 30 people after a man was lynched by a mob of around 2,000 people incensed by rumors of child kidnapping spread on WhatsApp.
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I mean, my brother was lynched not long ago, down in Arkansas, but I can see you've got bigger fish to fry—I'll get right on it.
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With philanthropic support, he and his colleagues used the space to erect a monument to over 4,400 American citizens lynched in the years between 1877 and 1950.
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She discovered that her relatives had been part of a mob that had lynched four black people — three men and a woman — in Hamilton, Ga., in 1912.
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In December civil rights groups, including the Austin N.A.A.C.P., unveiled a plaque in East Austin memorializing three African-Americans who were lynched in the area in 1894.
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Hard-line Islamist groups responded with a series of mass protests — including one in November that turned violent — demanding that the governor be prosecuted or even lynched.
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"We think a black man was lynched yesterday," Morris Reed, the president of the New Orleans branch of the N.A.A.C.P., said at a news conference on Friday.
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He was referring to a 2016 killing in which a female Islamic scholar was lynched by a mob over false rumors that she had burned a Quran.
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Recent flare-ups included the Whitney Museum of American Art, which displayed a white artist's painting of the body of Emmett Till, a teenager lynched in 21920.
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He's been provoking people for provocation's sake since he published an interview with a Klan member accompanied by a doctored photo of a black classmate being lynched.
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At least 25 people have been lynched and dozens wounded in mob attacks in the last three months over rumors that they were part of child kidnapping gangs.
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Hundreds more were lynched based on accusations of robbery, arson, simple assault and vagrancy, the report states; the crimes would not typically have resulted in a death sentence.
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Harris's office pointed to data from the Equal Justice Initiative which said that 4,000 black American men, women, and children were lynched in the 19th and 20th centuries.
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And it goes without saying federal and local statutes did nothing to protect slaves from being lynched — the only systematic protection that population had from lynching was economic.
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Yet he cites the murder of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old African-American lynched in Mississippi that same year, 1955, as having a profound influence on him.
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The white supremacist was lynched and hung from a tree, and Shawn was charged because he hails from the white supremacist's neck of the woods, and that's America.
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Four years earlier, Emmett Till, a fourteen year old boy, was lynched and brutally — and, I would add, gleefully — murdered in Mississippi, where the perpetrators were later acquitted.
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How many conservatives have had to flee college campuses, through the back door, under armed guard, to avoid being lynched by a mob of left-wing anti-fascists?
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The "assassin" takes many shapes: a stinkbug, the gang that lynched Emmett Till, a bunch of white girls posing for selfies, Donald Trump , and, unsettlingly, Hayes's own reflection.
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" Oprah: "I'm here today because of the men and because of the women who were lynched, who were humiliated ... for the right, for the equality at the polls.
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Written in a year in which more than 100 black people were lynched, the words of "Lift Every Voice" are a magnificent exhortation championing dignity, bravery and resilience.
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David Walker, his wife, and their four children were lynched in Hickman, Kentucky, in 21882 after Mr. Walker was accused of using inappropriate language with a white woman.
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A newspaper, The Tulsa Tribune, ran a front-page article the next day about the supposed attempted rape, and an editorial suggested that the man might be lynched.
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Cosby compared her husband to Emmett Till, a black 14-year-old who was lynched in 1955 after being falsely accused of leering at a white woman. Mrs.
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T.I. firmly asked Candace what period in American history is Trump so sure was "great" -- listing examples, like when women couldn't vote ... or when black people were lynched.
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After her 14-year-old son was lynched in 1955, she insisted there be an open coffin so people could see for themselves the brutality of the murder.
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Dozens of Muslim men have been attacked or lynched by Hindu mobs since then, many on suspicion of slaughtering cows, which are considered holy in the Hindu religion.
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Publicly expressing frustration or angst against the system would have jeopardized that in a time when a black man could get lynched or locked up just for talking smart.
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CARACAS (Reuters) - Roughly one person is being lynched in crisis-ridden Venezuela every three days as frustrated residents take revenge on suspected criminals, a monitoring group said on Wednesday.
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Although he was taken from her, the way lynched Americans were taken from their families, she was able to invert the final stage of public murder, which is spectacle.
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"It wasn't that long ago in our country's history where African-Americans were lynched, so this is a troubling signal of danger and unacceptance whenever it appears," he said.
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Even the 1931 James Whale film, in which Karloff wore green face paint, furthers this figuring of the creature as black: he is, in the film's climactic scene, lynched.
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In the 100 years after the Civil War, Southern Democrats and the Ku Klux Klan intimidated, maimed and lynched black people who dared to exercise their right to vote.
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"I think that saying a man was lynched by police actually brings up an important history in this country in a way that I think people get," he said.
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They have received a variety of responses: In the case of the Bulls, internet comments included a call for coaches to be lynched and the children to be killed.
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The wall text states that around 4,000 African Americans were lynched between 1877 and 1950 (others, including art historian Dora Apel, believe the figure might be closer to 5,000).
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And, not least, the B.J.P. has been criticized as too soft on violent Hindu extremists, including mobs that have lynched people for slaughtering cows, a revered animal in Hinduism.
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Though the mob initially planned to gather each individual thought to be involved in the crime to lynch them as a group, Head was lynched shortly after his capture.
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I couldn't help myself: After seeing the column with their names, I had to look up the distance between the place where they were lynched and my grandfather's farm.
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Though his death was initially declared a suicide by the police, his community believed that Lacy, who was in a relationship with an older white woman, had been lynched.
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It was named after a 14-year-old boy who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955 after a white woman accused him of grabbing her and whistling at her.
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Hard-line Islamist groups responded with a series of mass protests in Jakarta — including one in November that turned violent — demanding that the governor be prosecuted or even lynched.
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The NYPD placed the Jack Shainman Gallery on "special alert" following threats made in response to its display of Dread Scott's flag "A Man Was Lynched by Police Yesterday" (20163).
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Footage surfaced of her joking that if a supporter "invited me to a public hanging, I would be on the front row" (no state lynched more African-Americans than Mississippi).
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In the chest cavity of the man being lynched there is a pool of water in which float colored plastic letters that spell out N-I-G-G-E-R.
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One person was lynched in Spencer County in 1905, according to data kept by the paper, compared to 186 lynchings of black people across the state from 1877 to 1950.
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Mobs of racists lynched African-Americans in one of the darker periods of US history, part of an effort intimidate, dehumanize and keep power from those who didn't have it.
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At least two dozen innocent people have been lynched in India this year after bogus rumours warning of child abductors went viral on WhatsApp, a messaging service owned by Facebook.
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They never called me nigger, they never lynched me, they didn't put no dogs on me, they didn't rob me of my nationality, rape and kill my mother and father.
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But federal murder laws did little to protect the thousands of people of color lynched during the period of Reconstruction and the years leading up to the civil rights movement.
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The Mercury News reported that after Holmes and Thurmond confessed to the crime, a mob of thousands stormed the jail where they were being held and lynched the two men.
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A Colorado state lawmaker in a recent floor speech said both black and white people were lynched in "nearly equal numbers" for being Republican during Reconstruction in the late 85033s.
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Brutal opposition Between 1882 and 1968, more than 4,000 African-American men, women and children were lynched according to data from the Equal Justice Initiative, a nonprofit legal advocacy group.
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Only a person whose ancestors or family members bore no risk of being lynched themselves would dismiss as "ridiculous" objections to making hanging into a public political joke in Mississippi.
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Over the span of a few years, several young men he knew from the area were lynched by members of the public or gunned down by the police, he said.
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There were other stories throughout the region, including one about a woman named Elizabeth Lawrence being lynched in 1933 Birmingham after reprimanding white children who had thrown rocks at her.
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But once you learn what happened in these scenes from small towns, big cities or verdant fields, their almost unemotional first impression gives way to horror: Someone was lynched there.
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In the 2017 exhibition, for example, the artist Dana Schutz, who is white, faced protests for painting the lynched teenager Emmett Till — based on photographs of the young black victim.
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And no one was ever identified as the hanger of the lynched bananas around the AU campus, a clear hark back to America's murderous racist past and an intimidation tactic.
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Dana Schutz's painting "Open Casket," showing the mutilated corpse of Emmett Till, the African-American teenager lynched in Mississippi in 803, drew protests at the Whitney and online last month.
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Although more than 4,000 black men, women and children were lynched from 1877 to 1950, Congress failed to pass a bill that would have specifically punished lynching and mob violence.
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In the opening episode, Angela's beloved boss, a white sheriff named Judd, is lynched by an elderly black man, who turns out to be her grandfather, whom she's never met.
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Yes, Fairfax is African-American, as were the vast majority of the more than 80 men who were lynched in the Commonwealth in the second half of the 19th century.
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In the immediate aftermath of racial violence, clear artistic messages like Dread Scott's flag announcing that a black man was lynched by the police have an important role to play.
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Black victims were lynched for any reason at all: failing to tip one's hat, insisting on repayment of a debt, false charges of rape or murder, and even being too prosperous.
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As the highways wended across the U.S., proponents of the UDC's historical vision such as the Ku Klux Klan lynched black people, burned crosses, and enacted and supported Jim Crow laws.
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At least 335 Black people were lynched in Texas between 1877 and 1950, more than in all other states except Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Alabama, according to the Equal Justice Initiative.
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In the United States, people who were lynched were sometimes burned to death in front of 10,000 people, or had their bodies desecrated with body parts taken by observers as trinkets.
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One of the most gruesome episodes of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict occurred sixteen years ago when two Israeli army reservists accidentally drove into Ramallah and were lynched by an angry crowd.
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After three of her friends were lynched in 1892, she published an editorial in her paper (the Memphis Free Speech) denouncing the act and urging black Memphians to leave the city.
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One story tells of the ghost of a doctor named James Still, brother of William Still, who wrote 'The Underground Railroad,' who was lynched for practicing medicine as a black man.
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In "Strange Fruit," Billie Holiday's protest song from 1939, the jazz singer evoked the gruesome imagery that haunted her: black bodies hanging from trees after being lynched by angry white mobs.
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Muslims have been lynched by Hindu mobs on the suspicion of eating beef; this month a Muslim man was beaten and forced to eat pork in the eastern state of Assam.
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It was there, that, it is believed, the body of 14-year-old Emmett was pulled from the water after he had been kidnapped, tortured and lynched nearly 65 years ago.
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We witnessed Chinese people being lynched, raped and buried alive by the Japanese, and watched as some of them still managed to chant patriotic slogans all the way to the end.
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Pictures of the meat and body parts of animals were shared on WhatsApp, and a mob of his neighbors dragged Mr. Akhlaq from his house and lynched him on his street.
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People are holding signs that read "A Man Was Lynched Yesterday" and "Justice" -- and a spokesperson has said they want answers from officials on why the shooter was released from custody.
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After all, this is a country where consensual sex between black men and white women could land a couple in prison or lynched by an angry mob just a few decades ago.
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Slattery, the child's grandmother, said it wasn't the first time the boy, who is biracial, has been the victim of racist language, and claims the word "lynched" was used during the incident.
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The 1998 murders of Shepard and James Byrd Jr. — a black man lynched in Jasper, Texas, by three white men — eventually led to the passage of federal hate crimes legislation in 2009.
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And there were jokes about finding a 'Whites Only' sign at the entrance to our destination or the perils of being lynched or attacked while collecting firewood after the sun went down.
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I stood in ancestral hometowns like Loreauville, Louisiana, for the first time, where a great-granduncle of mine had been lynched, and felt a strange psychic and genetic familiarity with the land.
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"We have come a long way on that arc since the Reconstruction, since whites and blacks alike were in nearly equal numbers lynched for the crime of being Republican," Republican state Rep.
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The Republican candidate just placed race front and center by embracing vigilante hangings, a step too far for the state where many of our civil rights leaders were lynched, murdered, and buried.
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The flag itself now hangs inside the gallery, in another stunning echo of history: In 1938, the NAACP stopped flying the "A Man Was Lynched Yesterday" flag after their landlord threatened eviction.
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Ellison's worldview was shaped by hearing stories of his grandfather, Frank Martinez, who bravely fought for voting rights with the Louisiana NAACP in an era when African-Americans were still being lynched.
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It is estimated that more than 4,400 African American men, women and children were lynched between 1877 and 1950, and these murders were designed to maintain the political hierarchy according to race.
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Conceived as a single immense installation, it's dedicated to more than 4,000 African-Americans who were lynched by white Americans, and evokes their deaths in a language of stripped-down abstract sculpture.
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Each is inscribed with the name of a state and a county within that state (most are in the South), along with names (sometimes "Unknown") of African-Americans lynched in that county.
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In the video, distorted images of the White House — with "Trump Tower" superimposed in gold letters over it — are shown along with black-and-white images of people being lynched outside it.
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Two years after his questionable conviction was commuted to life imprisonment, Frank was lynched in an outbreak of anti-Semitism that shocked the nation and led to the formation of the league.
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Shroyer, who has been described in prior reports as a "disciple" of Infowars chief Alex Jones, drew attention earlier this year when he called for former President Barack Obama to be lynched.
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Pictured above: Dr. Fostenia Baker is the great niece of Frazier B. Baker, a postmaster in Lake City, South Carolina, who was lynched with his infant daughter, Julia, on February 22, 1898.
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If the, and I use this term extremely loosely, "leadership" of Louisiana wishes to, in a Nazi-ish fashion, burn books or destroy historical monuments of OUR HISTORY, they should be LYNCHED!
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"If there are heinous crimes being committed of people being lynched, the government's investigating agencies would like to know who the people behind this are," an anonymous government official told the Economic Times.
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These accusations were rarely investigated; and the killings were often committed before any legal proceedings could be held, and were sometimes done in the face of evidence suggesting the lynched person was innocent.
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Omaha's Hummel Park is reportedly the site of a Native American burial ground, and its eerily bowed trees are said to be weighed down by the souls of the African-Americans lynched there.
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Then, in the bizarrely bleak "Hanged Pierrot" (1940–41), a woman in white demurely mourns the titular lynched clown, distracting us from the spatial complexity of the pine tree from which he dangles.
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According to the Equal Justice Initiative -- which plans to build a national memorial to the victims of lynching in Montgomery, Alabama -- 4,075 people were lynched in the United States between 1877 and 1950.
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Some believe Daishon, Mohamed, and myself should be kicked off the team or suspended while some said we deserved to be lynched or shot just like other black people that have died recently.
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But what if that same police officer who shot Crutcher had to see the names of the lynched on those steel columns as she drove by her local precinct to work every day?
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The brashness of Jack Johnson, a black boxer in the early 20th century, could have gotten him lynched — and, in fact, got him jailed, for having a romantic relationship with a white woman.
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One testimonial, of a woman whose grandfather was lynched in 1916 after a disagreement with a white store owner in South Carolina, illustrates the unbearable injustice of lynching and its crass economic underpinnings.
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The opposition leader, a member of the Allevi minority, was in danger of being lynched, according to his party, corralled in a house as members of the crowd called to burn it down.
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In India, the country's governing right-wing Hindu party is exploiting faith for votes, pushing an us-versus-them philosophy that has left Muslims fearing they will be lynched if they walk alone.
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On Wednesday, the House passed the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act, named for the black teen who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955, with 410 members voting in favor and four voting against.
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After arresting a white man for setting fire to a Jewish deli, the young Reeves is beaten and nearly lynched by three white officers, who are leaders of the city's Ku Klux Klan.
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Earlier this month a man was lynched and left hanging upside down in a public square in the Oromiya town of Shashemene by a mob who wrongly suspected he was carrying a bomb.
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In addition, at least 20 people have been lynched and dozens wounded by Hindu extremists who call themselves cow protectors and are linked to Prime Minister Narendra Modi&aposs Hindu nationalist Bhartiya Janta Party.
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Four days earlier, another noose — an ugly vestige of America's brutal past in which black people were targeted and lynched — was discovered hanging from a tree on the grounds of the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum.
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Prosecution spokesman Erick Montilla responded to the media reports, saying he doubted any Dominican would not recognize David Ortiz and that Ferreira Cruz was making up a "story" to avoid being "lynched" in jail.
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In its early days, its members, dressed in infamous white robes and hoods, not only terrorized former slaves but also harassed, intimidated and even lynched Northern teachers, judges, politicians and "carpetbaggers" of all ilk.
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In October, the hanging death of Dayne Jones, the son of a prominent Ferguson, Missouri, activist, fueled accusations that the young man was lynched, though local police have disputed that characterization of the crime.
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They never called me nigger, they never lynched me, they didn't put no dogs on me, they didn't rob me of my nationality, rape and kill my mother and father... Shoot them for what?
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In what is one of the most significant race-related events in the history of the United States, Emmett Till, a 14-year-old Chicago native, was brutally lynched in rural Mississippi on Aug.
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A couple weeks after they discovered the location where Mary Turner was lynched, Rogers and Mark worked together with students at Valdosta University and with descendants of the victims to start organizing historical documentation.
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So Ms. Irvine sent an email to Ms. Branan, and the two have struck up an unlikely friendship: a black woman whose ancestor was lynched, and a white woman whose ancestors did the killing.
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" He continued: "And it is a message, that unless you kowtow to an old order you will be lynched, destroyed, caricatured by a committee of the U.S. Senate rather than hung from a tree.
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"It is sickening to know that someone would make a mockery of black men being savagely lynched and then use that imagery for decorative purposes in a restaurant," Minneapolis NAACP president Nekima Levy-Pounds commented.
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In recent years angry mobs have lynched many people from marginalized groups in India, especially Muslims and the Dalits who occupy the lowest rung of the ancient caste system, often over suspicions of cow slaughter.
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The NAACP, which did its best to keep track of this grisly statistic, noted that more than 2,500 black people were lynched in the South between 1889 and 1918 -- prime building years for Confederate monuments.
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Samuel Gaillard and George McFadden and Samuel Turner were lynched in Williamsburg, the county in South Carolina where my mother at the age of 13 was forced to marry a man two decades her senior.
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Last month, she joined residents on what they called a "civil rights pilgrimage" to the lynching museum in Montgomery, Alabama, bringing along soil from a site where a black Charlottesville man was lynched in 1898.
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Soon after the arrest, dozens of white men, mostly fellow cab drivers of Brown determined to avenge the attack, abducted Earle from the jail and lynched him—beat him, stabbed him, shot him to death.
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Another piece from the show, titled "Hanging," paired a graphic photo of a white mob surrounding two lynched black people, their bodies hanging from tree limbs, with the image of a cow in a slaughterhouse.
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The issue exploded at the 2017 Whitney Biennial, when a painting by a white artist, Dana Schutz, riffing on a photograph of a lynched young black man, Emmett Till, provoked outrage from African-American artists.
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A recent, very long round was set off by "Open Casket," a painting by Dana Schutz, which portrayed, in an abstract swirl, the body of Emmett Till, the black teenager tortured and lynched in 1955.
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The piece on the steps behind your chair is "A Man Was Lynched Yesterday," a redrafting of the flag the N.A.A.C.P. flew over Fifth Avenue in the 1920s and '30s when a lynching took place.
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This is only a small portion of it: Ed Johnson, 1906 (lynched on the Walnut Street Bridge, in Chattanooga, Tennessee, by a mob that broke into jail after a stay of execution had been issued).
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Mr. Adityanath was a forceful defender of the Hindu mob who lynched Muhammad Ikhlaq, a Muslim man suspected of slaughtering a cow, and argued that Mr. Ikhlaq's family should be prosecuted for possessing the meat.
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Wilbert's journey of self reflection led him to the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, DC, and the grave of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old lynched in Mississippi in 1955.
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Dread Scott lent the fair his "A Man Was Lynched by Police Yesterday" (2015) banner, and Kameelah Janan Rasheed loaned her piece "Are We There Yet" (2017), which was included in this year's Venice Biennale.
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"Although the manager was apologetic about the lynching depiction, that does not change the fact that this sickening image of black men being lynched was intentionally embedded inside of a table," Williams said in a statement.
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On April 14th a student at Abdul Wali Khan University, in the north-west of the country, was lynched by a vigilante mob of his fellow students, having been falsely accused of publishing blasphemous material online.
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Because of a poem, a novel, an interview, a tweet or a cartoon, we can be called a "backstabber" in pro-government media, lynched in social media, demonized, ostracized, put on trial or even get arrested.
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New Delhi (CNN)A mob in India lynched five people after rumors spread by WhatsApp messages prompted suspicion that they were child abductors, the latest in a spate of violent crimes linked to the messaging service.
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And if you've gotta depict a lynching, I think it's best that you literally place your viewers inside the head of the person being lynched, to remove what dispassion might result from a more removed perspective.
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Eventually they're so high that the inscribed names are unreadable, but reappear on the wall below in the jolting epitaphs: Jack Turner was lynched in Butler, Alabama, in 1882 for organizing black voters in Choctaw County.
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The Blanton's director, Simone Wicha, first encountered Mr. Valdez's work at a 2014 San Antonio exhibition of his series "The Strangest Fruit," which depicts the life-size bodies of lynched Mexican-American men in contemporary dress.
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Ms. Jenkins, 80, a historian and author whose aunt and uncle were attacked and nearly lynched in Rosewood, said that some survivors used the relatively modest payments to re-roof a house or do some remodeling.
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This was a troubling milestone given that, according to the Equal Justice Initiative, 344 black people were lynched in the 73 years after Reconstruction, a tally that included only documented lynchings and that stopped in 1950.
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They shouted "Justice for Chanel!" in the courtroom as spectators filed out at the end of the sentencing, and afterward, Mr. McCall said Mr. Lewis had been "lynched" in a sentence imposed by a "racist" judge.
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ISIOLO, Kenya (Reuters) - An expelled student shot dead six of his former schoolmates and a security guard at his school in northern Kenya on Saturday, and was then himself lynched by a furious mob, officials said.
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Paula Cooper Gallery's gesture in New York City is reminiscent of Jack Shainman Gallery's decision earlier this year to hang Dread Scott's "A MAN WAS LYNCHED BY POLICE YESTERDAY" flag outside its West 20th storefront location.
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"In Indonesia, the Times added, rumors of outsiders kidnapping children as part of organ-harvesting rings spread rapidly on Facebook, and as a result, "locals in nine villages lynched outsiders they suspected of coming for their children.
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And other groups faced the scourge of lynching too — in 1871, 11 Italian men were lynched by a crowd numbering in the thousands who were convinced the men were responsible for the murder of a police official.
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A white Ohio teacher is under fire after she told a 13-year-old Black middle school student that he would be lynched by an angry mob if he didn't behave in class and do his work.
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Building up to the final action sequence of the film, shots of KKK member initiation were intercut with those of a civil rights elder telling the story of his lynched friends to a group of Black students.
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Woodroffe was beaten and lynched by residents of a Shipibo-Conibo indigenous community in the rainforest region of Ucayali last month after Olivia Arevalo, a revered 81-year-old shaman, was shot and killed near her home.
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"Some believe DaiShon, Mohamed and myself should be kicked off the team or suspended, while some said we deserved to be lynched or shot just like the other black people who have died recently," Rose-Ivey said.
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With brutal violence that would be at home in a Quentin Tarantino movie, "The Nightingale" plays like a bleak Western, but one set in a lawless Australian frontier land, where the indigenous people are enslaved and lynched.
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America was the place where nearly 13,000 of our fellow citizens were lynched, 540 alone in Louisiana; where the courts enshrined 'separate but equal'; where Freedom riders coming to New Orleans were beaten to a bloody pulp.
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Other years have sparked more specific confrontations, as the last one did, in 230, over a rendering by the painter Dana Schutz of Emmett Till, the 219-year-old boy who was lynched in Mississippi in 643.
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America was the place where nearly 4000 of our fellow citizens were lynched, 540 alone in Louisiana; where the courts enshrined 'separate but equal'; where Freedom riders coming to New Orleans were beaten to a bloody pulp.
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The segregation exhibition is the second stop on a tour there and includes artifacts of the post-Civil War area, including the metal coffin of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old boy lynched in Mississippi in 1955.
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Because that river is a place where they found the body of Emmett Till, who was lynched by white men when he was 14 because they thought that he had done something untoward to a white woman.
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Black men whom the Klan lynched were often falsely accused of raping white women, but such lynchings were also a way of policing white women's behavior, reminding them of the dire consequences of crossing the color line.
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But another day of devastating disclosures on Capitol Hill helps explain Trump's increasingly explosive behavior, which saw him compare his own sense of victimization to African Americans who were lynched in the darkest moments of the nation's past.
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LIMA (Reuters) - Peruvian prosecutors have concluded that a Canadian man shot a medicine woman to death in an Amazonian community before he was lynched in retribution last month, a representative of Peru's attorney general's office said on Thursday.
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A video circulated in which her face was superimposed on the body of an American man who had been lynched, and a well-known radio host would play gorilla grunts on air and tell Simons to be quiet.
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The memorial they surrounded marks where Emmett's swollen and disfigured body was found washed up by the Tallahatchie River after Emmett, a 14-year-old black boy, was abducted, tortured and lynched by two white men in 1955.
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One is a large, four-sided gallery of 801 suspended six-foot columns, representing a county where a lynching took place and etched with the name of the person or people lynched — a term not limited to hangings.
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Those incidents include Bharatiya Janata Party leaders supporting a mob of angry villagers who lynched and killed a man in Uttar Pradesh in northern India last year because he was thought to be keeping beef in his refrigerator.
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Mr. Basuki and his supporters say the court case, which was preceded by mass protests in the capital by Islamists demanding that he be prosecuted or even lynched, was orchestrated by political opponents to sabotage his election campaign.
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When a decade was landed on, participants were quizzed about what would have gotten a black man lynched at that time (the right answer, no matter how ridiculous the reasons sounded, was always "D: All of the above").
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When he was sixteen and growing up in Besemer, fourteen-year-old Emmett Till was lynched, beaten, mutilated, and shot in Money, Mississippi, a little less than 250 miles away, because he supposedly flirted with a white woman.
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It's only now that I remember the story of how my grandmother and grandfather almost got lynched on their way to a Martin Luther King Jr. rally in Mississippi that I understand the weight of her tears that day.
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Smith, who's running for judge-executive in Spencer County near Louisville, ran a campaign ad in a local newspaper this week that spelled out "Good Ol' Boy System" with the silhouettes of four lynched bodies hanging from a tree.
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Dana Schutz's "Open Casket" is based on the heartbreaking and horrifying 1955 photograph of 14-year-old Emmett Till's lynched body, an image published in Jet magazine and largely credited with galvanizing widespread support for the civil rights movement.
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Bill Cosby's publicist on Friday compared his sexual assault conviction to the plight of Emmett Till, the black teenager who was lynched and disfigured in Mississippi in 1955 after he was wrongfully accused of flirting with a white woman.
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Bear in mind, these were their early years during which they also heard horrific stories, such as the killing of Emmett Till—the 14 year-old African American boy who was lynched for allegedly whistling at a white woman.
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NPR's Gene Demby recently explained how Texas's history adds important context to initial reactions to Barnes's death in Houston, pointing to the 1998 murder of James Byrd Jr., a black man lynched by white supremacists, in a neighboring county.
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Disturbing pictures of soldiers lynched on the street are already emerging, although it's hard to tell whether these represent semi-organized violence by Erdoğan-affiliated militias or the fury of the crowd in response to the army's own killings.
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A hint to the answer to that question came from a source inside Johnson's government, who told today's Financial Times that if the people or the government changed their minds about Brexit then politicians might be "lynched" in London.
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In March, a small group of protesters blocked Dana Schutz's painting in the Whitney Biennial based on open-coffin photographs of the mutilated body of Till, the teenager who was lynched by two white men in Mississippi in 1955.
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This has created enormous herds of mangy, unproductive, unwanted cattle that herders don't dare to kill, either because of specific cow protection laws that vary state by state or because they are terrified of being lynched by Hindu extremists.
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Ms. Schutz, who is white, had based it on famous photographs of the battered body of Emmett Till, the black teenager from Chicago who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955 on fabricated allegations of flirting with a white woman.
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Toni Morrison's novels, written at the same time as the classics of white American Minimalism, include indicators of specific period, because it's important for the reader to know whether the characters might be whipped or lynched with juridical impunity.
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The casket of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old black boy who was lynched because he whistled at a white woman, now rests in the soon-to-be-opened Smithsonian's new National Museum of African American History and Culture.
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To this day, it's impossible for me to think about Martin's premature death and not jump to the murder of Emmett Till, the teenager who was lynched in 1955 by two white men for allegedly whistling at a white woman.
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" She continued, "I hadn't understood the way that it fed into a very dark history of, you know, Black men being lynched for not responding to white women in the way white women felt they were supposed to be responded to.
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The case of the state's best-known victim — 14-year-old Emmett Till, lynched in 1955 — stands out against this blood-drenched backdrop, both for the barbaric violence involved and because the murder helped to galvanize the modern civil rights movement.
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LIMA (Reuters) - A Canadian man was lynched in the Peruvian Amazon after residents of a remote village accused him of killing an 81-year-old medicine woman a day earlier, a spokesman for the attorney general's office said on Sunday.
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Can't you just see Schilling—a guy who thinks he'd be in the Hall of Fame if only he said President Trump should get lynched instead of journalists—trying to Cliffs Notes his way through a high-stakes contract negotiation?
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Last year, after a Muslim man in Uttar Pradesh was lynched by a mob for eating beef, a cabinet minister from the B.J.P. demanded to know who else was "involved in the crime" — meaning the beef eating, not the man's killing.
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"Emmett Till would have been 77 years old this year had he not been lynched," Rush added, referring to the black teenager killed in 1955 after a white woman falsely accused him of whistling and making a sexual advance at her.
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I asked him why, and he responded via email: The flag is an update on a banner that the NAACP used to hang outside of their national headquarters in New York on Fifth Avenue the day after someone was lynched.
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Nearly every staff member is a lawyer with clients in the prison system, and they have continued to work a full schedule of legal defense work even as they painstakingly compiled the names of the lynched and planned the memorial.
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But other black men, and women and even children, too, were lynched for insisting on their rights, or for minor violations of the racial caste system, like failing to step off a sidewalk to make way for a white person.
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"It does no damage whatsoever to Modi and his party, because what this protest says is, 'Muslims are getting lynched,' and a lot of Hindutvas out there will say, 'That's the point,' " Mr. Vij said, referring to far-right Hindus.
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I received emails that promised I would be lynched, shot and raped, and Princeton's department of African-American studies, of which I am a member, was so flooded with hate that the locks on the doors had to be changed.
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"I'm here today because of the men and because of the women who were lynched, who were humiliated, who were discriminated against, who were suppressed, who were repressed and oppressed, for the right for the equality at the polls," Winfrey said.
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After she revealed the artist's personal connections to his subjects and explained his portrayal of them in a "hanging" manner as homage to the Latinos lynched in Texas in the 19th and 20th centuries, some students increased their empathy scores.
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In 1955, when Emmett Till's lynched and mutilated body was pulled from the Tallahatchie River in Mississippi, his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, wanted her son's body visible, his coffin open so people could see what had been done to him.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Over the past few weeks, the conversation and controversy surrounding Dana Schutz's painting of a photograph of the lynched Emmett Till, "Open Casket" — currently on view in the Whitney Biennial — has engulfed the art world.
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Numerous black artists have depicted enslaved bodies, lynched bodies, maimed bodies, and imprisoned bodies in the early stages of their careers — and then moved away from such politically charged subject matter without having their morality or sense of responsibility impugned.
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NEW DELHI – A woman was lynched in central India on rumors that she was part of a gang that kidnapped children, police said Monday, days after the country&aposs highest court called for immediate steps to control deadly mob violence across the country.
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So is it really fair to compare a modern-day question about administering the census to a white-supremacist era where thousands of newly freed slaves throughout the South were lynched for offenses ranging from holding elected office to attempting to vote?
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Graham to join me in the ground-breaking of the International African-American Museum this Friday in Charleston and to also visit the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, which honors more than 85033,000 men, women and children who were lynched in America.
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WhatsApp has been the under fire in India, its largest market with more than 200 million active users, after violent mobs fueled by rumors spread through the app lynched nearly 30 people in various parts of the country in the last few months.
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When Victor Bernstein, the Jewish journalist, interviewed the governor of Mississippi after the two boys were lynched in 1942, he asked what would end mob violence—especially when white folks refused to tell on their neighbors and law enforcement failed to prosecute.
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A banner by Mr. Scott emblazoned with the phrase "A Man Was Lynched by Police Yesterday" brings together history (a similar banner, without the words "by police," appeared outside the offices of the N.A.A.C.P. in Manhattan in the 1930s) and current topical politics.
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On June 8, two men traveling in a SUV were lynched by a mob in the northeastern state of Assam after rumors that a child was being held in the car spread through the local village on social media sites Facebook and WhatsApp.
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In 1917, to marshal support for another war, Woodrow Wilson had created a propaganda department, a fiction manufactory that stirred up so much hysteria and so much hatred of Germany that Americans took to calling hamburgers "Salisbury steaks" and lynched a German immigrant.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Then he moves on to the furore surrounding Open Casket, Dana Schutz's painting of Emmett Till, the 14-year-old African-American boy who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955 for wolf whistling at a white woman.
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It is true that, historically, black men have faced false accusations that played a role in lynchings, a point that is especially salient in Arkansas, where nearly 500 African Americans were lynched between 1877 and 1950, according to the Equal Justice Initiative.
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Look for our in-depth interview with him later this month, buy the EP here, and check out Hideous Silhouettes of Lynched Gods in its vicious entirety below (there's a rad live video of the band tearing through "Hellish Visions" here, too).
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When his untitled 21996 work of three lifelike sculptures of children lynched from a tree debuted in Milan, it incensed one God-fearing man so much that the gentleman tried to cut the kids down himself, busting his own ass in the process.
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He has researched cases in which family members had no idea their relative was lynched or didn't wish to revisit the traumatic story, and he has seen others in which the killing grounds have been obliterated by parking lots or office buildings.
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The online interactive acts as a portal to more dialogue and understanding ahead of those major projects, with audio stories, a film called Uprooted about a family's return to the South a century after one of their relatives was lynched, and maps.
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Between 1886 and 1915, at least 46 Italian immigrants were lynched in Mississippi, Florida, Illinois, West Virginia, Colorado and elsewhere, including the 11 slain by a New Orleans mob in 1891 after some of them had been tried for murder and acquitted.
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BAGHDAD — The antigovernment protests that have shaken Iraq for months took a brutal turn on Thursday when protesters lynched a 16-year-old boy who had fired a pistol in the air to try to shoo them away from his family's home.
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What would Mamie Till-Mobley, Emmett's mother, have to say about a white artist's rendering of the iconic Jet magazine coffin photograph of her son, a 14-year-old African-American from Chicago who was lynched while visiting relatives in Mississippi in 1955?
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There's a sense that the artist wants to prevent us from fully envisaging the brutality she depicts, as if images of lynched bodies hanging from trees and packed slave ships may be so disturbing that full depiction would prevent the viewer's comprehension of the scene.
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But it was a 1955 photo of the open casket funeral for Emmett Till, a 14-year-old African-American who was lynched in Mississippi for purportedly flirting with a white woman, that inspired Tyner to take a drastic approach to combating gun violence.
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The day before Trump and Graham made their comments, the Emmett Till Memorial Commission in Mississippi erected its fourth sign marking the spot on the Tallahatchie River where, in the summer of 1955, Till's body was found after he was kidnapped, tortured and lynched.
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Prompted by the Seminoles losing 14-41 to rival University of Florida on Saturday, the man allegedly shared in an FSU fan group on Facebook an image of 42-year-old Taggart, who is black, superimposed over a man being lynched, according to Washington Post.
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Color footage of hangar-size supermarkets of the 1950s, of white boys as well as white girls at poolside beauty pageants—a world made possible, Baldwin would say, by the blacks we see working in the cotton fields and in the photographs of the lynched.
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"I'm here today because of the men and because of the women who were lynched, who were humiliated, who were discriminated against, who were suppressed, who were repressed and oppressed, for the right, for the equality at the polls," Oprah told the audience, to cheers.
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But elements of the case were reminiscent of a killing that occurred in September, when vigilantes from Save the Cow, a Hindu activist group, gathered a mob of about 1,000 people and lynched a Muslim man who was rumored to have slaughtered a cow.
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The photo shows Ben LeClere, John Lowe, and a third unidentified Kappa Alpha Order member standing in front of a plaque for Till, who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955 at just 14 years old, according to the Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting with ProPublica.
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After three black men were lynched in the fall of 1919 — two of them were accused of assaulting white women, one of killing a police officer — The Advertiser wrote an editorial that blamed the men for the crimes without any evidence that they were guilty.
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That someone like her would now refuse to speak up for a poor Muslim farmer with small children who was lynched in her state is an indication of how poisoned the air has become in three short years since the B.J.P. came to power.
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The case of the week (and seriously, when was the last time Scandal actually had one of those?) involves Shawn (McKinley Freeman), a Black man falsely imprisoned for a hate crime when a white supremacist who bombed a Black church is found lynched in a forest.
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Further, lest we forget violent massacres like Wounded Knee in 1890, the Tulsa Riots in 85033, the Rosewood Massacre in 1923, and the thousands of black men, women and children who were lynched by white Christian males who inflicted terror on these people and communities with impunity.
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The titles of some of these three-dimensional series — "Flight Patterns," for example — evoke references to sails, kites or aircraft, but the initial impetus came from images of lynched figures, and from the idea of tents carried for shelter by escaped slaves and immigrants on the run.
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For more than 50 years after the murder of Emmett Till, no historical markers in the Mississippi Delta told the story of the 14-year-old African-American boy who was dragged from his bed in the night, lynched and then dumped in the Tallahatchie River.
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Many black Republicans and their families have personally experienced racism — and in some cases witnessed violence perpetrated by the Ku Klux Klan and other supremacist groups that lynched thousands of people, beat and murdered civil rights marchers, and supported segregationist policies that held African-Americans back.
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This bloody sacrifice to white supremacy sprang immediately to mind over the weekend when a white Mississippi state representative, Karl Oliver, railed in a Facebook post that elected officials in New Orleans deserved to be "lynched" for arranging to have four Confederate memorials removed from the city.
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On Thursday, what would have been the 78th birthday of Emmett Till — the 14-year-old black boy who was lynched in Mississippi after being accused of offending a white woman — a photo surfaced showing three young white men posing with guns in front of his bullet-ridden memorial.
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Landless Dalits are at the bottom of the age-old social hierarchy, making them vulnerable to discrimination and attacks by upper-caste Hindus, including recent ones by hardline "gau rakshak" vigilantes who have lynched them on suspicion of eating beef or transporting cows, which they regard as sacred.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads For one week, the monumental flag bearing the text, "A MAN WAS LYNCHED BY POLICE YESTERDAY" flew outside Jack Shainman Gallery's West 20th location as Dread Scott's unfortunate update to the nearly identical one the NAACP once flew outside its Manhattan headquarters.
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Her painting "Open Casket," shown in the 2017 Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art, drew sustained protests for its portrayal of the corpse of the black teenager Emmett Till, who was lynched by two white men in 1955 and whose death helped spur the civil rights movement.
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In one gruesome incident in 1871, a riot broke out in Los Angeles when a rancher was allegedly shot by a Chinese man, and a mob of Anglos and Latinos surrounded Chinatown (now the site of Union Station) where they shot or lynched an estimated 50 Chinese men.
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The 14-year-old Chicagoan had been sent to spend the summer with his uncle in Mississippi, where he was lynched for reputedly flirting with or whistling at a white woman (Carolyn Bryant Donham, who, in a book published in 2017, recanted her original account of this event).
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The Daily Dot reports that the letters on the sign form the individual names of victims of race-related violence, including Emmett Till (an African-American child who was lynched in Mississippi at the age of 14 in 1955, galvanizing the civil rights movement), Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, and Eric Garner.
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"I'm here today because of the men and because of the women who were lynched, who were humiliated, who were discriminated against, who were suppressed, who were repressed and oppressed, for the right, for the equality at the polls," Winfrey told an audience at an Abrams campaign event this week.
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Scroll through the guide below to hear the evolution of American protest anthems: The year: 1930s - 1950s The protest: Lynchings of African-Americans The anthem: "Strange Fruit," Billie Holiday According to the Equal Justice Initiative, more than 403,000 African-Americans were lynched across 12 Southern states between 1877 and 260.
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As Richard White tells us in his excellent volume on Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, published as part of the also excellent Oxford History of the United States, between seventy-eight and a hundred and sixty-one black men were lynched every year in the decade from 21963 to 21964.
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I admired the way she acted as if she were fully invested in this drama unfolding at Taylor's parents' beach house even though, in my mental version, this fictional maid's fictional brother was one of the several thousand people who were lynched I.R.L. in the first half of the twentieth century.
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All of the defense's strategies—from playing up peoples' tendency toward hero-worship with celebrities to subtly invoking the history of black men being lynched for alleged sexual behavior toward white women to victim blaming—will appeal to the psychology of the three main camps of people still defending Cosby.
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The sense that there has been no justice for the African-Americans lynched, jailed and driven from their homes by the white citizens of Forsyth weighs on a reader like me — white, reasonably affluent, and raised with no knowledge whatsoever of what happened just up the road from my childhood home.
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Similar to Trump, Texas A&M University distorts the history of America's racism by offering parity between the revolts and armed militancy of black, brown, and indigenous victims of colonialism and slavery, and the violence of white Americans who killed, raped and lynched innocent people for the color of their skin.
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"My father has been publicly lynched in the media and my family, my young daughter, my young niece and nephew have had to stand helplessly by and watch the double standard or pretending to protect the rights of some but ignoring the rights of others," she said in a statement last year.
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When I'm caught in the hotel, I tell the woman, "Go into the bathroom — there may be a law about this in Massachusetts," and that line rings out because now you see this black man with a white woman in 1949, knowing that black men have been lynched and killed for less.
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" The big picture: Oprah Winfrey, who is campaigning on behalf of Stacey Abrams, the Democratic candidate for governor, said she is supporting Abrams behind the men and women "who were lynched, who were humiliated...for the right, for the equality at the polls," and she "refuses to let their sacrifices be in vain.
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BUTEMBO, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - Two Hutu women were dragged out of a minibus, lynched and their bodies set on fire by a crowd in eastern Congo, the local mayor said on Wednesday, as inter-ethnic tensions in the region surge in the wake of massacres that have killed hundreds of civilians.
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East Texas is Klan country, and Jasper holds a notable spot in the racist history of the region as the town where, in 1998, when Fears was 10, three white men lynched a black man named James Byrd Jr., chaining him to the back of a truck and dragging him to death.
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However, emboldened hard-line Islamist groups held the series of protests in Jakarta and other cities late last year, demanding that Mr. Basuki be jailed for blasphemy — or even lynched — including a demonstration in the capital in early November in which Muslim protesters set cars on fire and battled with riot police officers.
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Op-Ed Contributor The African-American journalist Simeon S. Booker Jr., who died this week at the age of 99, sensed an important story when Emmett Till, a black 19643-year-old from Chicago, was lynched and mutilated during a summer visit to Mississippi in 1955 for supposedly flirting with a white woman.
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Across the top of the piece a rebus depicts a rope salesman, a white farmer with a noose, a lynched figure and a Ku Klux Klan member whose parted robe reveals a figure in a suit and an extra-long tie who could be construed as the current occupant of the White House.
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Karl Oliver, a Republican, wrote in a now-deleted Facebook post that people tearing down Confederate monuments "should be LYNCHED" — invoking language that's obviously attached to the oppression of black Americans: The destruction of these monuments, erected in the loving memory of our family and fellow Southern Americans, is both heinous and horrific.
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It had been purchased just three years earlier at a gallery in Berlin, in the same exhibition as "Open Casket," whose evocation of the body of Emmett Till, the 14-year-old black boy who was lynched by two white men in Mississippi in 1955, which caused a furor at the 2017 Whitney Biennial.
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No memorial stands at the places where they were murdered, and no major monument exists for the over 32.73,000 black individuals who were lynched between Civil War and World War II. Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror was launched this week by the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) with support from Google.
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Bangladesh: eight lynched over false rumours of child sacrifices Here's a story I wish had gotten more attention last week: Eight people have been killed in vigilante lynchings in Bangladesh, sparked by rumours on social media of children being kidnapped and sacrificed as offerings for the construction of a mega-bridge, police said on Wednesday.
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"Unbalanced Diptych" combines an interwar shame: a wide view of three lynched black men surrounded by a crowd of unabashedly cheerful white faces, with a narrow photograph of about eight young black men, possibly gang members with guns in their hands and black censor bars across their faces, a bizarre detail in this context.
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But he had no chance to expound on this in a trial, or even to languish for more than a day in the medieval hell of Anjavavy's prison, because on his way to the courthouse he was seized by a mob of islanders and promptly lynched, torn to pieces, burned, and cast into the sea.
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It is strange, in a country that fought a civil war over slavery, that witnessed (and protected) a domestic terror campaign that lynched thousands of African Americans, that enforced legal segregation, that there is so much resistance to simply admitting what that our history shows as obvious fact: There is racism in America, and it's a potent political force.
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This is why most Americans have never heard the name Mary Turner, who in 1918 was hung from a tree in Georgia by her ankles, her clothes set afire, her 8-month-old fetus cut from her body by an angry white mob -- all because she wanted the white men who lynched her husband held to account.
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Three weeks after the commemoration in Memphis, Barber spoke at the Performing Arts Center in Montgomery, Alabama, for the opening of the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, a monument to the more than forty-four hundred African-Americans who were lynched between the end of Reconstruction and the beginning of the modern civil-rights movement.
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Even a crime with parallels to the Mae Crow case — committed after there were no African-Americans left and Edwards had been lynched and his co-defendants executed — was not enough to compel local whites to admit that a killer was still on the loose and that racism and greed had been guiding their own actions.
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DIBBY JOHNSON My hands-down nominee for the year's best outside New York is the Wallace Buice Theater Company's production of "Parade," performed at the Lyric Studio Theater in Marietta, Ga., just a mile from where the victim, Mary Phagan, is buried and just two miles from where Leo Frank was lynched by an angry anti-Semitic mob.
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Scott, 70, creates beautiful, troubling sculpture and jewelry, which often incorporates delicate traditional beadwork and confronts the horrors of the country's racial history: Her piece "Lynched Tree" (2011-15) is a large, amorphous sculpture that depicts a body hanging upside down by the legs from the ceiling, spilling chains, beads and bones onto the gallery floor below.
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"I'm here today because of the men and because of the women who were lynched, who were humiliated, who were discriminated against, who were suppressed, who were repressed and who were oppressed for the right of equality at the polls," Ms. Winfrey said as she visited Georgia on behalf of Stacey Abrams, the Democratic candidate for governor.
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Two sculptures of fantastic mythical creatures contain touches of dark humor: "Blackwater Creature II" (2019) is a creepily whimsical centipede made from branches, feathers, horse hair, and bronze baby shoes; "Blackwater Creature I" (2019) is a dangling amalgam of horsehair and resin that resembles the Addams' Family's Cousin Itt and casts a shadow evoking a lynched figure.
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In the last two years alone in India, mobs largely reacting to rumors spread on Facebook's WhatsApp, which has more than 200 million active users in India, have lynched more than 30 people; fake news and propaganda have flourished on Facebook; harassment, abuse, and political propaganda on Twitter have reached new highs; and fake videos and conspiracy theories have flooded YouTube.
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So you and I may recognize the fraudulence of the device in both cases, but the fact remains that a man who has a sword run through him because he will not become a Moslem [sic] or a Christian — or who is lynched in Mississippi or Zatembe because he is black — is suffering the utter reality of that device or conquest.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Schoolteacher Elizabeth Lawrence was lynched in 1933 in Jefferson County, Alabama, after scolding white children who threw rocks at her; 17-year-old Henry Smith was brutally tortured and then burned alive in Paris, Texas, in 1893 — the suspicion that he killed a white girl being enough to form a posse and sentence him to death.
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The open-coffin photographs of the mutilated body of Emmett Till, the teenager who was lynched by two white men in Mississippi in 1955, served as a catalyst for the civil rights movement and have remained an open wound in American society since they were first published in Jet magazine and The Chicago Defender at the urging of Till's mother.
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We undertake a collective mourning for black people who were never meant to be included within the ideal norms of American democracy, yet forced themselves to dream as they faced nightmares, to continue breathing as they were suffocating from the stench of black bodies lynched and burned alive, and who forced themselves to stay alive when suicide would have been easier.
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Just try describing a country that knowingly allowed this chain of events, taken from a report by the Equal Justice Initiative, to happen as "great": In 1904, after Luther Holbert allegedly killed a local white landowner, he and a black woman believed to be his wife were captured by a mob and taken to Doddsville, Mississippi, to be lynched before hundreds of white spectators.
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"The Triumph of Fear" (2017) is a similarly complex work, containing imagery of Black Lives Matter protestors being gunned down by police; a man being lynched; skeletons riding atop police cars waving a Confederate flag; military personnel throwing shackled prisoners off a bridge; and the Supreme Court justices standing quietly in the corner, a blindfolded and shackled Lady Justice sitting on the ground to their side.
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And yet this was nothing compared to the routine threats of violence, sexual and otherwise, that women, minorities, and dissenters are subjected to in Modi's increasingly intolerant India, where people have been lynched by mobs, assassinated by hitmen, arrested by the police on questionable pretexts, driven to suicide through threats and social pressure, and assaulted in judicial complexes, in full view of the police.
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Of course, if you go by the numbers, more blacks were killed by police in 2015 than were lynched in 1892, the peak year for lynching in the US. It's impossible to be young and black and aware of all of this history, to watch the tragedies of today, and not feel a sense of helplessness—like your life is no longer in your own hands.
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Consider this extraordinary description he offers of a social process so multifaceted as neighborhood gentrification, which in urban areas like New York is far from a straightforwardly white phenomenon: To empathize on any human level with the lynched and the raped, and then to watch all of the beneficiaries just going on with their heedless lives, could fill you with the most awful rage.
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