"A lynching is the public killing of an individual who has not received any due process. These executions were often carried out by lawless mobs, though police officers did participate, under the pretext of justice.
Lynchings were violent public acts that white people used to terrorize and control Black people in the 19th and 20th centuries, particularly in the South. Lynchings typically evoke images of Black men and women hanging from trees, but they involved other extreme brutality, such as torture, mutilation, decapitation, and desecration. Some victims were burned alive.
A typical lynching involved a criminal accusation, an arrest, and the assembly of a mob, followed by seizure, physical torment, and murder of the victim. Lynchings were often public spectacles attended by the white community in celebration of white supremacy. Photos of lynchings were often sold as souvenir postcards."
History of Lynching in America | NAACP
NOTE--This informational blog is compiled by (with the exception of the introduction and photograph) and reprinted with permission from Abdul Akalimat, PhD
Lynching in America https://lynchinginamerica.eji.org/
National Memorial for Peace and Justice https://legacysites.eji.org/about/memorial/
NAACP History: https://naacp.org/find-resources/history-explained/history-lynching-america
Ida B Wells https://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtid=3&psid=3620
A Marxist analysis https://tinyurl.com/yva9wjun
Statistics by year http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/shipp/lynchingyear.html
wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_in_the_United_States
Photo images https://www.gettyimages.ie/photos/lynching?excludenudity=true&mediatype=photography&phrase=lynching&sort=mostpopular
Map https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/map-shows-over-a-century-of-documented-lynchings-in-united-states-180961877/
STATES
Alabama https://www.al.com/news/2018/04/alabamas_racial_lynching_victi.html
Alaska http://www.sitnews.us/Kiffer/LituyaLynching/092611_lynching.html
Arizona http://genealogytrails.com/ariz/frontierjustice.html
Arkansas https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/lynching-346/
California https://www.pbs.org/video/hanging-trees-untold-story-lynching-california/
Colorado https://coloradoencyclopedia.org/article/lynching-colorado
Connecticut https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_Charles_Lockwood
Delaware https://www.delawarepublic.org/delaware-headlines/2019-06-27/historians-say-prices-corner-not-sole-delaware-lynching-aim-to-document-others
Florida https://www.browardpalmbeach.com/news/florida-lynched-more-black-people-per-capita-than-any-other-state-according-to-report-6470940
Georgia https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/lynching/
Hawaii https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katsu_Goto
Idaho https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2023/jul/28/100-years-ago-in-north-idaho-a-sheriffs-posse-stag/
Illinois https://chicagocrusader.com/illinois-experienced-more-lynchings-than-most-midwestern-states/
Indiana https://tinyurl.com/4j9uvvpm
Iowa https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkwATc3lXcQ
Kansas https://www.kshs.org/p/kansas-historical-quarterly-history-of-lynchings-in-kansas/12580
Kentucky https://databases.courier-journal.com/kentucky-lynchings/
Louisiana https://64parishes.org/entry/lynching
Maine https://newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/a-lynching-in-maine-what-happened-to-james-cullen/
Maryland https://msa.maryland.gov/lynching-truth-reconciliation/
Massachusetts (any body got evidence on this?)
Michigan https://www.fox17online.com/homepage-showcase/these-are-peoples-lives-historians-shine-light-on-lives-of-two-men-lynched-in-michigan
Minnesota https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/duluth-lynchings-1920/
Mississippi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Lynching_deaths_in_Mississippi
Missouri https://tinyurl.com/5n6t9hw7
Montana https://www.hcn.org/issues/51.11/history-montanas-vigilante-obsession-obscures-the-truth
Nebraska https://www.wowt.com/content/news/Remembering-the-lynching-of-Will-Brown-506357791.html
Nevada https://www.rgj.com/story/life/2014/08/29/hazen-nev-noted-notorious-hanging/14818513/
New Hampshire https://www.essence.com/news/white-teens-lynch-black-boy-new-hampshire-police-silent/
New Jersey https://www.app.com/story/news/history/2022/06/16/mingo-jack-lynching-site-eatontown-national-historical-marker-equal-justice-initiative/7615080001/
New Mexico https://apnews.com/article/b8516a3d80ef40da97afd3a9e4f7d706
New York https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjBuYhzNEDA
North Carolina https://lynching.web.unc.edu/
North Dakota https://www.mprnews.org/story/2020/08/17/in-grand-forks-giving-dignity-to-a-man-denied-justice
Ohio https://www.communitysolutions.com/acknowledging-ohios-history-lynching-community-remembrance-project/
Oklahoma https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=LY001
Oregon https://www.opb.org/news/article/coos-bay-oregon-lynching-alonzo-tucker/
Pennsylvania https://philadelphiaencyclopedia.org/essays/lynching/
Rhode Island (Anyone got a link on this state?)
South Carolina https://www.abhmuseum.org/south-carolina-lynching-victims-memorial/
South Dakota (Any links on this?)
Tennessee https://www.abhmuseum.org/tennessee-lynching-victims-memorial/
Texas https://www.lynchingintexas.org/
Utah https://exhibits.lib.utah.edu/s/utah-lynching/page/welcome
Vermont (Any links on this state?)
Virginia http://mlkcommission.dls.virginia.gov/lynchinginvirginia.html
Washington (Any links on this state?)
West Virginia https://www.abhmuseum.org/west-virginia-lynching-victims-memorial/
Wisconsin https://tinyurl.com/abdkuyjc
Wyoming https://tinyurl.com/wnpuh7b8