Lynching in the United States
Lynching in the United States From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Lynching , the practice of murdering people by extrajudicial mob action, occurred in The body of George Meadows hanging from a tree near the Pratt Mines in Alabama's Jefferson County on January 15, 1889, after being lynched. The body of George Meadows hanging from a tree near the Pratt Mines in Alabama's Jefferson County on January 15, 1889, after being lynched. the United States chiefly from the late 18th century through the 1960s. Lynchings took place most frequently against African-American men in the southern U.S. after the American Civil War and the emancipation of all slaves, and particularly from 1890 to the 1920s, with a peak in 1892. Lynchings were also very common in the Old West , where victims were primarily men of Mexican and Chinese minorities, although whites were also lynched. [1] The body of George Meadows hanging from a tree near the Pratt Mines in A