Authorities suspect the lynching was provoked by the persons being investigated.
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Harding had previously spoken out publicly against lynching on October 21, 1921.
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Foremost among these interventions is a history of lynching and opposition to it.
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Charles Guthrie was involved in the 1911 lynching of Laura and Lawrence Nelson.
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Wells took her anti-lynching campaign to Europe with the help of many supporters.
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In lynching cases, all-white juries almost never indicted Ku Klux Klan members.
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Lynching was the act of those who refused to let the legal system do its work.
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This would be the last lynching of African Americans in a northern U.S. state.
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The anger over Emmett Till's lynching helped propel the civil rights movement.
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Kill without legal sanction; "The blood-thirsty mob lynched the alleged killer of the child"
Lynch. is a visual kei rock band formed in 2004 by Hazuki (formerly in Deathgaze), Reo, and Asanao in Nagoya, Japan. retrieved August 24, 2008 With Yukino as a support bassist they released their first album on the label Marginal Works and toured nationally. ...
Lynch is a surname of Irish origin.
The Lynch is an island in the River Thames in England. It is on the reach above Shiplake Lock near Lower Shiplake.
To execute without a proper legal trial, especially by hanging; To commit an act of violence by a mob upon the body of another person