Lynching in the United States
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title:
Lynching in the United States
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Lynching was 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 ethni
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Extrajudicial killings in the United States by mobs or vigilante groups
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_in_the_United_States
date created:
2005-06-23T15:40:30Z
date modified:
2024-09-07T08:03:47Z
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