Lynchings and Racial Violence during Reconstruction 1865-1876-2020

 

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Lynchings and Racial Violence during Reconstruction  1865-1876-2020

Mobile County, Alabama, 1865

White mobs kill an estimated 138 Black people over the course of several months.

Duplin County, North Carolina, 1865

Six Black men lynched after demanding that a white landowner pay them for their work.

Memphis, Tennessee, 1865

Approximately 20 Black Union soldiers attacked and killed.

Bell County, Texas, 1866

Violent attacks by the Ku Klux Klan leave approximately seven Black people dead.

Pine Bluff, Arkansas, March 1866

Twenty-four emancipated Black men, women, and children living in a refugee camp are found dead, hanging from trees.

Memphis, Tennessee, May 1866

White mobs attack the Black community, killing at least 46 people and destroying homes, schools, churches, and businesses.

New Orleans, Louisiana, July 1866

White mobs attack advocates marching for Black voting rights, killing an estimated 33 Black people.

Millican, Texas, July 1868

An estimated 150 Black people are killed by armed white mobs.

Camilla, Georgia, September 1868

White mobs attack Black residents gathered to protest political disenfranchisement, killing at least seven Black people.

Opelousas, Louisiana, September 1868

An estimated 200 Black people are killed over several days after attempting to participate in the political process.

Caddo Parish, Louisiana, October 1868

At least 53 Black people are killed by white mobs wielding racial violence to suppress the Black vote.

New Orleans, Louisiana, October 1868

White mob attacks and kills 14 Black men on Canal Street.

St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, October 1868

White mobs attack Black community to discourage voting, killing at least 35 Black people.

Algiers, New Orleans, Louisiana, October 1868

White mobs use violence to suppress the Black vote, killing at least seven Black people.

Bossier Parish, Louisiana, October 1868

White mobs terrorize the Black community in widespread attacks leading up to election day, killing at least 162 Black people.

McDuffie County, Georgia, November 1868

A Black man named Perry Jeffreys, his wife, and four of their sons are attacked and lynched by white mobs targeting Mr. Jeffreys for voting.

Moore County, North Carolina, February 1869

After a Black man named Daniel Blue testifies against white men accused of racial violence, a white mob attacks his home and lynches his wife and five children.

Henderson, Texas, April 1869

A white mob hangs five Black men—including two preachers—on the public square outside the courthouse without trial.

Tiptonville, Tennessee, November 1869

White mob seizes five Black men from jail and lynches them without trial.

Eutaw, Alabama, November 1870

White mobs attack a political meeting of Black residents and white allies, killing four Black people.

Harrodsburg, Kentucky, August 1870

White mobs violently suppress the Black vote, lynching four Black people.

Union County, South Carolina, 1871

White mobs lynch up to 12 Black men during rampant Klan terrorism.

Colfax, Louisiana, April 1873

White mobs kill at least 150 Black people in violence intended to disenfranchise Black voters and restore white supremacy.

Grant Parish, Louisiana, November 1873

White mob lynches six Black men without trial.

Bryan, Texas, March 1874

White mob lynches six Black men without trial.

Trenton, Tennessee, August 1874

White mob abducts 16 Black men from jail and lynches them without trial.

New Orleans, Louisiana, September 1874

Three days of violence leaves 11 dead after White League terrorist organization attempts to overthrow Louisiana’s Reconstruction government in so-called Battle of Liberty Place.

Eufaula, Alabama, November 1874

Armed white men attack Black voters at the polls on election day, killing at least six Black people.

Vicksburg, Mississippi, December 1874

When Black residents organize to protest the removal of an elected Black sheriff, white mobs attack and kill an estimated 50 Black people.

Clinton, Mississippi, September 1875

Armed white mobs attack the Black community after a political meeting, killing an estimated 50 Black people.

West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, May 1876

White mobs lynch at least 17 Black people in violent effort to suppress the Black vote.

Edgefield County, South Carolina, May 1876

White mob lynches six Black men without trial.

Hamburg, South Carolina, July 1876

In violence leading up to election day, a white mob attacks Black men stationed at the National Guard Armory, killing at least six.

East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, 1875-1876

White mobs lynch at least 30 Black people in racialized attacks over several months.                         

United States of America, 1944, 2020

The youngest person ever sentenced to death was 14 years old, George Stinney, an African American who was accused of killing white girls aged 11 and 7. He was sentenced and killed with a 5380 volt shock in the electric chair in 1944. 70 years later, in 2014, George Stinney was proven innocent.

George Stinney Jr.(14) - wrongfully sentenced to death by electrocution for a crime he didn’t commit. (1944) George Perry Floyd Jr.(47) - murdered by a police officer in Minneapolis.( 2020) Their only crime was being black.

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