Four African American men hang from trees, their hands bound behind their backs, apparent victims of lynchings, 1915. .
Crowd gathering to witness the killing of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, two victims of lynch law in Marion, Indiana, 7th August 1930. This image was...
Crowd watches as Caucasian men prepare a platform for the hanging of an African American man named Henry Smith accused of killing a Caucasian girl...
Member of the Ku Klux Klan with a noose, 75 cars of the Ku Klux Klan were driving through Miami, Florida to hold off black people form the election,...
Ruston, LA:The shot-riddled body of negro W.C. Williams hangs from a towering oak tree less than 150 yards from the spot where the murder and assault...
More than 3,000 African-American protesters marched on the streets of Washington carrying signs urging control and halting of the lynching of blacks....
The body of an African American man named MacMannus hangs from a tall tree above a huge crowd of caucasian men. Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Washington, DC: Some of the more than 3,000 negroes, carrying signs urging control and halting lynching of negroes, who took part in the protest...
Man Lynched at Railroad Crossing, Orangeburg, South Carolina, USA, Albumen Photograph, January 6th 1897.
Chandler Colding was lynched after being accused of raping a 77 year-old white woman. | Location: Near Ocala, Florida.
The lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith. The African-Americans were arrested as suspects, accused for robbery, murder and rape. An angry mob...
Members of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People hold signs protesting the practice of lynching while a conference on crime...
The lynching of Leo Frank, who was accused of raping Mary Phagan, an employee of his Georgia pencil factory, and convicted on very little evidence in...
Washington, DC: Some of the more than 3,000 negroes, carrying signs urging control and halting of lynching of negroes, who took part in the protest...
An African American soldier named Johnson hanging dead after being lynched. Accused of attempted rape, it is doubtful that any court was involved in...
The group of protestors paraded before Constitution Hall as the National Crime Conference gathered for today's session. Their banners carried a plea...
Fearing a mob lynching, Alabama Governor B M Miller called the National Guard to the Scottsboro jail to protect the young black men who are accused...
Photograph of the Lynching of Bennie Simmons, soaked in coal oil before being set on fire. Anadarko, Oklahoma. Dated 1913.
After being accused of murdering Claude Deeter, 23 and assaulting his girlfriend Mary Ball, 19 two young African-American men are taken from the...
Photograph of the Lynching of Bennie Simmons, soaked in coal oil before being set on fire. Anadarko, Oklahoma. Dated 1913.
The lynching of Leo Frank, who was accused of raping Mary Phagan, an employee of his Georgia pencil factory, and convicted on very little evidence in...
United States Lynching scene in Texas, A black man, accused of having attacked a white woman, is hanged immediately.
Large crowd watching the lynching of Jesse Washington, 18-year old. Negro, in Waco, Tex. May 15, 1916. Photo NAACP Coll. Lot 10642-4
The lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith. The African-Americans were arrested as suspects, accused for robbery, murder and rape. An angry mob...
Protesters ask President Truman to do something about the latest lynching which has taken place in Monroe, Georgia. The protesters' sings mention...
Crowd of people stands to watch the lynching by burning of Jesse Washington whose charred corpse leans chained to the trunk of a tree. Waco, Texas.
Washington, D.C.: Negro delegates from several states parade with signs in front of the White House to protest the mob slaying of four negroes in...
On November 28th a crowd of nine thousand people stormed the Buchanan County Jail and removed Lloyd Warner, an African American accused of attacking...
Three Howard University students wearing nooses around their necks in protest outside a crime conference held across the road from them by United...
Huge crowd surrounds the the burning body of an African American man tied to a tree trunk, with black smoke rising from his body.
Mob of white teenagers kicks and beats an African American man, who holds his head and screams in pain during a lynching, 1950.
Lynching. Russellville. Kentucky. 1908. Gelatin silver print. Image: 11.8 x 9.1 cm . Photographs. Minor B. Wade . From the first year of...
The riots in New York: the mob lynching a black man in Clarkson St, New York. From the Illustrated London News - 8th August 1863.
Man reading the announcements of the funerals of four victims of a lynching in Monroe, Georgia, a notice from the US government threatens prosecution...
Crowd of people stands to watch the lynching by burning of Jesse Washington whose charred corpse leans chained to the trunk of a tree. Waco, Texas.
The determined men of a Shelbyville, Tennessee, mob were cheated of a lynching when National Guardsmen stoutly resisted their attempts to lay hands...
Slayden, MS: The body of Ab Young, colored youth, swinging from a tree at Slayden, MS., March 12th, after he had been lynched by a mob of 50 men....
Slayden, MS: Spectaters view the body of Ab Young colored boy after he had been lynched by a mob of 50 men, at Slayden, MS, March 12. Young was...
New Historic marker detailing lynching in Anne Arundel County and in America at Whitmore Park on Calvert Street is seen September 17, 2019 in...
Hanged Man - A Large Group Of Men And At Least One Woman Surrounding The Gallows Where The Dead Man Hangs. Denver Hanging In 1887.
The bodies of Dooley Morton and Bert Moore, of Lowndes County, are shown hanging from a tree after the two were lynched by an angry mob of white...
Long line of marchers paraded through the streets of Washington, May 8th, to the White House, shown in the background, to present a petition to...
Execution by hanging of a negro man in the South. Executioner preparing the noose. Photgraph, 1906. ORIGINAL CAPTION
Kwame Akoto-Bamfo's 'Nkyinkim' sculpture, dedicated to the memory of the victims of the Transatlantic slave trade at the entrance of the National...
