Category:Lynching in the United States
Articles relating to lynching in the United States, the widespread occurrence of extrajudicial killings which began in the United States' pre–Civil War South in the 1830s and ended during the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s. Although the victims of lynchings were members of various ethnicities, after roughly 4 million enslaved African Americans were emancipated, they became the primary targets of white Southerners. Lynchings in the U.S. reached their height from the 1890s to the 1920s, and they primarily victimized ethnic minorities. Most of the lynchings occurred in the American South, as the majority of African Americans lived there, but racially motivated lynchings also occurred in the Midwest and border states. In 1891, the largest single mass lynching in American history was perpetrated in New Orleans against Italian immigrants.
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Pages in category "Lynching in the United States"
The following 37 pages are in this category, out of 37 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
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- Antebellum South
- Anti-union violence in the United States
- Culture of the Southern United States
- History of African-American civil rights
- Human rights abuses in the United States
- Lynching
- Political repression in the United States
- Political violence in the United States
- Racially motivated violence against African Americans
- Racially motivated violence in the United States
- Riots and civil disorder in the United States
- Terrorism in the United States
- Vigilantism in the United States
- White supremacy in the United States