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National Conference on Lynching 1919 · Lynched · Event in 1919 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Conference_on_Lynching Omaha race riot of 1919 1919 · Lynched · Racial violence in Omaha, Nebraska, United States (placed at Omaha) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omaha_race_riot_of_1919 Ten Mile, Mississippi 1919 · Unincorporated community in Mississippi, United States Moore, Will African American Ten Mile Stone Mississippi May 20, 1919 Shooting J.H. Rogers Lynchedhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Mile%2C_Mississippi Warrenton, Georgia 1919 · City in Georgia, United States Richards, Benny African American Warrenton Warren Georgia May 1, 1919 Accused of murdering his ex-wife and shooting 5 others 300 men lynched Richards, a farmer.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrenton%2C_Georgia Center, Texas 1920 · City in Texas, United States Daniels, Lige 16 African American Center Shelby Texas August 3, 1920 Murder of a white woman Taken from jail by a mob of approximately 1,000 to the town square and hangedhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center%2C_Texas Duluth lynchings 1920 · Lynched · 1920 lynchings of African-Americans in Minnesota https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duluth_lynchings Hurtsboro race riot 1920 · Racial violence · 1920 conflict in Hurtsboro, Alabama, US (placed at Hurtsboro) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurtsboro_race_riot Lynching of Irving and Herman Arthur 1920 · Lynched · 1920 crime in Paris, Texas, United States (placed at Paris) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_Irving_and_Herman_Arthur Lynching of Wade Thomas 1920 · Lynched · African American who was lynched in the U.S. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_Wade_Thomas Ocoee massacre 1920 · Lynched · 1920 mass violence in Florida, U.S. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocoee_massacre Purvis, Mississippi 1920 · City in Mississippi, United States Brown, Coleman African American Purvis Lamar Mississippi December 23, 1920 Murder of a 14-year-old black girl Brown, a preacher, was hanged from a tree by an African American mob.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purvis%2C_Mississippi Lynching of Eugene Daniel 1921 · Lynched · (placed at Pittsboro) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_Eugene_Daniel Lynching of Henry Lowry 1921 · Lynched · Lynching of an African-American man in 1921 (placed at Wilson) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_Henry_Lowry Lynching of William Turner 1921 · Lynched · 1921 Arkansas lynching (placed at Helena) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_William_Turner Sour Lake, Texas 1921 · City in Texas, United States Cade, Henry 25 African American Sour Lake Hardin Texas November 26, 1921 Rape of an 8 year old white girl Taken from jail and hanged by a mobhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sour_Lake%2C_Texas Tulsa race massacre 1921 · Lynched · 1921 mass violence in Oklahoma, US https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa_race_massacre Belhaven, North Carolina 1922 · Town in North Carolina, United States Tankard, Philip African American Belhaven Beaufort North Carolina July 5, 1922 Rioting Tankard was shot to death after riots following a July 4 celebration by J.F. Burrows who was deputized to help put down the riots.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belhaven%2C_North_Carolina Benton, Louisiana 1922 · Town in Louisiana, United States Pemberton, Joe African American Benton Bossier Louisiana July 7, 1922 Shot two black women Joe Pemberton was in the Bossier Parish jail in Benton, Louisiana for shooting two black women. A white mob surrounded the jail, overpowered Deputy Sheriff J.A. Wilson, and took Pemberton. His body was later fhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benton%2C_Louisiana Crawford, Mississippi 1922 · Town in Mississippi, United States Ingram, Jerry African American Crawford Lowndes Mississippi March 17, 1922 Assault on white woman The wife of a popular farmer, Mrs Dewey, was attacked. She was able to yell for help and the attacker fled. Bloodhounds found a man, Jerry Ingram, 8 miles (13 km) from the scene of the attack and he washttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crawford%2C_Mississippi Lambert, Mississippi 1922 · Town in Mississippi, United States Steelman, John 35 African American Lambert Quitman Mississippi August 23, 1922 Assault on a white woman, Mrs. Bruce White Mr. Bruce White had hired Steelman for some work. White and Steelman ate breakfast at White's house and then walked to the work site. Steelman made an excuse and returned to Whithttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambert%2C_Mississippi Lynching of Bayner Blackwell 1922 · Lynched · Killing of African-American man (1922) (placed at Swansboro) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_Bayner_Blackwell Lynching of George and Ed Hartley 1922 · Lynched · Lynching in Camden, Tennessee, USA (placed at Camden) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_George_and_Ed_Hartley Lynching of James Harvey and Joe Jordan 1922 · Lynched · Lynching of two African-American men (placed at Liberty County) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_James_Harvey_and_Joe_Jordan Lynching of Joe Winters 1922 · Lynched · 1922 American lynching (placed at Conroe) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_Joe_Winters Lynching of John West 1922 · Lynched · 1922 lynching in Arkansas, United States (placed at Arkansas) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_John_West Lynching of Mr. Norman 1922 · Lynched · (placed at Texarkana) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_Mr._Norman Lynchings of Mer Rouge, Louisiana 1922 · Lynched · 1922 Ku Klux Klan lynchings (placed at Mer Rouge) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynchings_of_Mer_Rouge%2C_Louisiana Okay, Oklahoma 1922 · Town in Oklahoma, United States Unidentified Man White Okay Wagoner Oklahoma March 19, 1922 Body of a man chained/tied to a tree was discovered in the Arkansas River near Okay, Oklahoma . He was wearing clothes of "an excellent grade" and had a handkerchief with the initial "B".https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okay%2C_Oklahoma Perry massacre 1922 · Lynched · Racially motivated conflict in Florida, USA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry_massacre Silas, Alabama 1922 · Town in Alabama, United States Conner/Connor, Drew 22–23 White Bolinger Choctaw Alabama January 28, 1922 Unknown A charred body of a white man was discovered on January 28, 1922, by H.T. Raines. Investigators determined that he was burned a few weeks earlier. The body was strung between two trees and a large pile of wood was pilehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silas%2C_Alabama Winder, Georgia 1922 · City in Georgia, United States Long, Jim Reed African American Winder Barrow Georgia September 2, 1922 Attack of a white woman, 19-year-old Ms. Violet Wood, daughter of Rev. John H. Wood Ms. Violet Wood was visiting the house of her aunt, Ms. Pearl Saunders, when she interrupted a burglary allegedly undertaken by Jim Reed Long. Shttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winder%2C_Georgia Wisner, Louisiana 1922 · Town in Louisiana, United States Culpepper, Brown White Holly Grove Franklin Louisiana March 11, 1922 Unknown A party of unmasked men came to the house he was staying at; when they did not find him, they went to the house of J.R. Hutto where Culpepper was visiting. They called for him to come out but when he didn't, they stormed inhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisner%2C_Louisiana Wrightsville, Georgia 1922 · City in Georgia, United States Johnston, Jim African American Wrightsville Johnson Georgia September 28, 1922 Assault of a white woman A mob had gathered in Sandersville , and so Deputy Sheriff Davis and Nixon were driving Johnson to Wrightsville when a posse of 50 men overpowered the deputies and seized Johnson. Hanged on the Cehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrightsville%2C_Georgia Rosewood massacre 1923 · Lynched · 1923 massacre of African Americans in Florida, US https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosewood_massacre Lynching of Samuel Smith 1924 · Lynched · African American who was lynched in the U.S. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_Samuel_Smith Lynching of L. Q. Ivy 1925 · Lynched · 1925 lynching in the United States (placed at Etta) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_L._Q._Ivy Lynching of Robert Marshall 1925 · Lynched · 1925 Murder of Black man in Utah (placed at Carbon County) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_Robert_Marshall Prichard, Alabama 1925 · City in Alabama, United States Robinson, Dick and Thompson African American Pritchard Mobile Alabama October 6, 1906 Assaulting white womenhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prichard%2C_Alabama Lynching of Raymond Byrd 1926 · Lynched · 1926 lynching in Virginia, United States (placed at Wytheville) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_Raymond_Byrd Lynching of Albert Williams 1927 · Lynched · 1927 lynching of a Black man in Florida https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_Albert_Williams Lynching of Henry Choate 1927 · Lynched · 1927 lynching of a Black man in Tennessee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_Henry_Choate Lynching of Jim and Mark Fox 1927 · Lynched · 1927 killing of two Black men in Mississippi (placed at Louisville) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_Jim_and_Mark_Fox Lynching of Joe Smith 1927 · Lynched · 1927 lynching of a Black man in Mississippi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_Joe_Smith Lynching of Joseph Upchurch 1927 · Lynched · 1927 lynching of a Black man in Tennessee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_Joseph_Upchurch Lynching of Leonard Woods 1927 · Lynched · 1927 lynching of a Black man in Kentucky https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_Leonard_Woods Lynching of Owen Flemming 1927 · Lynched · 1927 lynching of a Black man in Arkansas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_Owen_Flemming Lynching of Thomas Bradshaw 1927 · Lynched · 1927 lynching of a Black man in North Carolina https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_Thomas_Bradshaw Lynching of Thomas Williams 1927 · Lynched · 1927 lynching of a Black man in Tennessee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_Thomas_Williams Lynching of Tom Payne 1927 · Lynched · 1927 lynching of a Black man in Texas (placed at Willis) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_Tom_Payne Lynching of Winston Pounds 1927 · Lynched · 1927 lynching of a Black man in Arkansas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_Winston_Pounds Locust Grove, Georgia 1930 · City in the United States Wilkins, John H. 45 African American Locust Grove Henry Georgia April 18, 1930 Smiling at a white woman Wilkins, a pullman porter , was dragged off his train and lynched. A protest manifesto mentioning his lynching and two others had a cropped picture of a lynched African American. This cropped phothttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locust_Grove%2C_Georgia Lynching of George Hughes 1930 · Lynched · Lynching of an African-American man in 1930 (placed at Sherman) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_George_Hughes Lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith 1930 · Lynched · 1930 lynching of African-American prisoners in Marion, Indiana (placed at Marion) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_Thomas_Shipp_and_Abram_Smith Crockett, Texas 1932 · City in Texas, United States Tillis, Dave 52 African American Crockett Houston Texas 1932 "Demanded an accounting from his landlord. Charged with 'entering the bedroom of a white woman'".https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crockett%2C_Texas Lynching of Elwood Higginbotham 1935 · Lynched · 1935 killing of an African American (placed at Oxford) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_Elwood_Higginbotham Yreka, California 1935 · City in California, United States Johnson, Clyde L. 24 White Yreka Siskyou California August 3, 1935 Killing of Police Chief Frank R. Daw Dunsmuir Police Chief Frank Daw was shot and killed on July 29, 1935, when he confronted an armed robbery suspect. Johnson, the alleged perpetrator, was removed from the Siskiyou County Jail and whttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yreka%2C_California Covington, Tennessee 1937 · City in Tennessee, United States Gooden, Albert 35 African American Covington Tipton Tennessee August 16, 1937 Murder of a white police officer Accused of murdering Marshall Chester Doyle. Taken from sheriff by 100 men and lynched from bridge over Beaver Creek; body recovered from river by sheriff's deputies.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covington%2C_Tennessee Shively, Kentucky 1938 · Racial violence · City in Kentucky, United States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shively%2C_Kentucky Lynching of Austin Callaway 1940 · Lynched · 1940 lynching in LaGrange, Georgia, US (placed at LaGrange) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_Austin_Callaway Lynching of Cleo Wright 1942 · Lynched · 1942 lynching of an African American in the US (placed at Sikeston) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_Cleo_Wright 1943 Detroit race riot 1943 · Racial violence · Racial violence in Michigan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1943_Detroit_race_riot Camp Concordia 1943 · World War II POW camp in Kansas, US Tropschuh, Felix 29 White (German) Camp Concordia Cloud County Kansas October 18, 1943 Collaborating with the American authorities Forced to hang himself by a mob of German POWs.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Concordia Camp Hearne 1943 · US Prisoner of War camp during World War Two Krauss, Hugo 24 White (German) Camp Hearne Robertson Texas December 17, 1943 Collaborating with the American authorities Beaten to death by a mob of six to 10 fellow German POWs. Before Camp Hearne closed in 1946, one of the attackers, Günther Meisel, confessed out of remorse. Meisel and six others https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Hearne Lynching of Willie James Howard 1944 · Lynched · 1944 killing in Florida (placed at Suwannee County) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_Willie_James_Howard 1945 Katsuyama killing incident 1945 · Killing of three American soldiers by Okinawans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945_Katsuyama_killing_incident Coronado, California 1946 · City in California, United States Collier, Alton 26 African American Coronado San Diego California April 27, 1946 Alleged stabbing of a white sailor (Freddie Leroy Johnson) who was part of a crowd already chasing him with weapons to the bow of the boat shouting racial slurs. Forced off a ferry and left to drown. Ruled a suicide untihttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronado%2C_California Moore's Ford lynchings 1946 · Lynched · Unprosecuted 1946 mob lynchings in Georgia, United States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_Ford_lynchings Lynching of Willie Earle 1947 · Lynched · African American who was lynched in the U.S. (placed at Greenville) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_Willie_Earle Anacostia Pool riot 1949 · Racial violence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anacostia_Pool_riot Englewood race riot 1949 · Racial violence · 1949 race riot in Chicago, Illinois (placed at Chicago) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Englewood_race_riot Fairground Park riot 1949 · Racial violence · 1949 race riot in St. Louis, Missouri, United States (placed at St. Louis) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairground_Park_riot Peekskill riots 1949 · Racial violence · 1949 anti-communist race riots against African Americans and Jews https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peekskill_riots Johnny Bright incident 1951 · Racial violence · 1951 on-field assault during an American college football game (placed at Boone Pickens Stadium) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Bright_incident Murders of Harry and Harriette Moore 1951 · Racial violence · 1951 murders of activists in Mims, Florida (placed at Mims) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murders_of_Harry_and_Harriette_Moore Ax Handle Saturday 1960 · Racial violence · 1960 race riot in Jacksonville, Florida (placed at James Weldon Johnson Park) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ax_Handle_Saturday Anniston and Birmingham bus attacks 1961 · Racial violence · Attack on civil rights protesters by the Ku Klux Klan in 1961 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anniston_and_Birmingham_bus_attacks Ole Miss riot of 1962 1962 · Racial violence · Civil unrest in Mississippi, United States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ole_Miss_riot_of_1962 16th Street Baptist Church bombing 1963 · Racial violence · 1963 terrorist attack in Birmingham, Alabama https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16th_Street_Baptist_Church_bombing Birmingham riot of 1963 1963 · Racial violence · 1963 unrest following the targeted bombings of Civil Rights leaders in Birmingham, AL, US (placed at Birmingham) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham_riot_of_1963 Murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner 1964 · Lynched · 1964 murders of activists in Mississippi, US (placed at Neshoba County) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murders_of_Chaney%2C_Goodman%2C_and_Schwerner Deacons for Defense and Justice 1965 · Racial violence · Armed Black-American self-defense group (placed at Piney Woods) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deacons_for_Defense_and_Justice Emporia, Virginia 1967 · Independent city in Virginia, United States Cotton, Walter African American Emporia Greensville Virginia March 24, 1900 Accused of murder Cotton killed by a white mob; O'Grady Killed by African American mobhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emporia%2C_Virginia Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. 1968 · Racial violence · 1968 murder in Memphis, Tennessee, U.S. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Martin_Luther_King_Jr. Orangeburg Massacre 1968 · Racial violence · 1968 shooting of student protesters https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orangeburg_Massacre Livernois–Fenkell riot 1975 · Lynched · Racially motivated riot in Detroit, Michigan, US (placed at Detroit) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livernois%E2%80%93Fenkell_riot The Soiling of Old Glory 1976 · Racial violence · 1976 Pulitzer Prize–winning photograph https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Soiling_of_Old_Glory Murder of Betty Gardner 1978 · Lynched · 1978 hate crime in South Carolina, US (placed at Saint Helena Island) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Betty_Gardner 1980 Miami riots 1980 · Racial violence · Period of civil unrest in Miami, Florida (placed at Miami) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_Miami_riots States' rights speech 1980 · Racial violence · 1980 speech by Ronald Reagan (placed at Neshoba County Fair) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/States%27_rights_speech Lynching of Michael Donald 1981 · Lynched · 1981 lynching in Mobile, Alabama, U.S. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_Michael_Donald Michael Donald 1981–1987 · Mobile, Alabama March 21, 1981: Klan members beat Michael Donald, 19, and hang him from a tree on Herndon Avenue. One is executed in 1997; a 1987 civil verdict won by his mother, Beulah Mae Donald, bankrupts the United Klans of America.Lynching of Michael Donald (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_Michael_Donald ) 1982 Overtown riot 1982 · Racial violence · Riot in Miami in 1982 (placed at Overtown) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982_Overtown_riot Miracle Valley shootout 1982 · Racial violence · Confrontation between church members and law enforcement (1982) (placed at Miracle Valley) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_Valley_shootout 1985 MOVE bombing 1985 · Racial violence · 1985 aerial bombing by police in Philadelphia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_MOVE_bombing 1987 Forsyth County protests 1987 · Racial violence · Civil rights demonstrations in Georgia, US https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1987_Forsyth_County_protests Murder of Mulugeta Seraw 1988 · Racial violence · Racially motivated murder in Portland, Oregon (placed at Portland) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Mulugeta_Seraw Murder of Yusef Hawkins 1989 · Lynched · Fatal shooting in Brooklyn, New York in 1989 (placed at Bensonhurst) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Yusef_Hawkins Murders of Hattie Mae Cohens and Brian Mock 1992 · Racial violence · 1992 murder in Salem, Oregon (placed at Salem) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murders_of_Hattie_Mae_Cohens_and_Brian_Mock Valrico, Florida 1993 · Census-designated place in Florida, United States Wilson, Christopher 32 African American Valrico Hillsborough Florida January 1, 1993 None (white supremacists) Three white men kidnapped Wilson and set him on fire. Wilson survived. Mark Kohut, 27, and Charles Rourk, 33, were both convicted of attempted first degree murder, kidnapping, and robbery, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valrico%2C_Florida James Byrd Jr. 1998 · Jasper, Texas June 7, 1998: three white men drag James Byrd Jr. behind a pickup truck until he dies. The case leads to the federal Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009.Murder of James Byrd Jr. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_James_Byrd_Jr. ) Murder of James Byrd Jr. 1998 · Lynched · 1998 lynching and hate crime in Jasper, Texas, US (placed at Jasper) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_James_Byrd_Jr. 1999 Independence Day weekend shootings 1999 · Racial violence · Shooting spree in Illinois and Indiana, United States (placed at Salem) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_Independence_Day_weekend_shootings 2003 Lockheed Martin shooting 2003 · Racial violence · Mass shooting in Mississippi, U.S. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_Lockheed_Martin_shooting Hunters Brooke arson 2004 · Racial violence · 2004 arson fire in Maryland, United States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunters_Brooke_arson United States Holocaust Memorial Museum shooting 2009 · Racial violence · 2009 terrorist attack in Washington, D.C. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Holocaust_Memorial_Museum_shooting Murder of Jordan Davis 2012 · Racial violence · 2012 murder of an American teenager (placed at Jacksonville) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Jordan_Davis Lennon Lacy 2014–2016 · Bladenboro, North Carolina August 29, 2014: Lennon Lacy, 17, is found hanging from a swing set. Local officials rule it suicide; his mother calls it a lynching. The FBI investigation closes in 2016 with no charges.CBS News (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fbi-probes-north-carolina-teens-hanging-death-ruled-suicide ); Facing South (https://www.facingsouth.org/2016/07/questions-linger-after-suicide-ruling-suspected-lynching-nc-teen-lennon-lacy ) Charleston church shooting 2015 · Racial violence · 2015 mass shooting in South Carolina, U.S. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charleston_church_shooting Murders of Alison Parker and Adam Ward 2015 · Racial violence · 2015 shooting in Moneta, Virginia, U.S. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murders_of_Alison_Parker_and_Adam_Ward Otis Byrd 2015 · Port Gibson, Mississippi March 2015: Otis Byrd, 54, is found hanging from a tree in the woods. The Justice Department closes its civil rights probe in May 2015, saying it found no evidence of homicide; the family's questions remain.U.S. Department of Justice (https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/federal-officials-close-investigation-death-otis-james-byrd ); CBS News (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mystery-continues-in-mississippi-man-otis-james-byrd-hanging-death ) 2017 Portland train attack 2017 · Racial violence · Stabbing attack in Oregon, U.S. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Portland_train_attack Assault of DeAndre Harris 2017 · Racial violence · Assault that occurred at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia (placed at Charlottesville) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assault_of_DeAndre_Harris Burnette Chapel shooting 2017 · Racial violence · 2017 mass shooting in Tennessee, U.S. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burnette_Chapel_shooting Murder of Richard Collins III 2017 · Racial violence · 2017 murder in Maryland (placed at College Park) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Richard_Collins_III National Memorial for Peace and Justice 2018 · Montgomery, Alabama April 26, 2018: the Equal Justice Initiative opens the memorial to more than 4,400 people lynched in the United States between 1877 and 1950, with a column for every county.National Memorial for Peace and Justice (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Memorial_for_Peace_and_Justice ); EJI, Lynching in America (https://lynchinginamerica.eji.org/ ) Louisiana black church fires 2019 · Racial violence · 2019 arson attacks in Louisiana, United States (placed at Port Barre) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_black_church_fires Ahmaud Arbery 2020–2022 · Brunswick, Georgia February 23, 2020: three white men chase Ahmaud Arbery in their trucks and shoot him while he jogs. They are convicted of murder in 2021 and of federal hate crimes in 2022.Murder of Ahmaud Arbery (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Ahmaud_Arbery ) Murder of Ahmaud Arbery 2020 · Lynched · 2020 murder in Georgia, U.S. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Ahmaud_Arbery Robert Fuller 2020 · Palmdale, California June 10, 2020: Robert Fuller, 24, is found hanging from a tree outside Palmdale City Hall during the George Floyd protests. Los Angeles County officials rule it suicide; the family disputes it.Daily Beast (https://www.thedailybeast.com/robert-fullers-death-from-hanging-ruled-a-suicide ) 2022 Buffalo shooting 2022 · Racial violence · Mass shooting in New York, U.S. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Buffalo_shooting 2023 Jacksonville shooting 2023 · Racial violence · Mass shooting in Florida, US https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Jacksonville_shooting Killing of Ajike Owens 2023 · Racial violence · 2023 shooting in Ocala, Florida, US https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Ajike_Owens Shooting of Ralph Yarl 2023 · Racial violence · 2023 shooting in Kansas City, Missouri https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Ralph_Yarl Murder of Sam Nordquist 2025 · Racial violence · 2025 torture and killing in New York, US (placed at New York) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Sam_Nordquist Trey Reed 2025 · Delta State University, Cleveland, Mississippi September 15, 2025: Demartravion "Trey" Reed, 21, a Delta State student, is found hanging from a tree on campus. The state autopsy rules suicide; his family calls for an independent autopsy.Mississippi Free Press (https://www.mississippifreepress.org/trey-reeds-family-calls-for-an-independent-autopsy-after-he-was-found-hanging-in-a-tree/ ) A.C. Jackson Racial violence · African-American surgeon (placed at Memphis) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.C._Jackson Alexander Manly Racial violence · American newspaper owner (1866–1944) (placed at La Mott) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Manly Alfred Mouton Racial violence · Confederate general of the American Civil War (1829–1864) (placed at Mansfield) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Mouton Alton Wayne Roberts Racial violence · American murderer and white supremacist (1938–1999) (placed at Meridian) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alton_Wayne_Roberts Andrew Goodman (activist) Racial violence · American civil rights activist and murder victim (1943–1964) (placed at Mississippi) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Goodman_%28activist%29 Barack Obama assassination plot in Denver Racial violence · Assassination plot to shoot Barack Obama at the 2008 Democratic National Convention (placed at Denver) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama_assassination_plot_in_Denver Bear River City, Wyoming Lynched · Ghost town in Uinta County, Wyoming, United States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear_River_City%2C_Wyoming Benjamin F. Randolph Racial violence · African American politician (1820–1868) (placed at Hodges) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_F._Randolph Berry Washington Lynched · African American who was lynched in the U.S. (placed at Milan) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berry_Washington Big Nose George Lynched · Late 19th century cattle rustler and highwayman in the American Wild West (placed at Rawlins) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Nose_George Blanford, Indiana Racial violence · Census-designated place in Indiana, United States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blanford%2C_Indiana Bloody Monday (Danville) Racial violence · Series of arrests and attacks during a 1963 civil rights demonstration https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Monday_%28Danville%29 Bogalusa sawmill killings Lynched · Mass racial attack in Bogalusa, Louisiana in 1919 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogalusa_sawmill_killings Bombingham Racial violence · Nickname for Birmingham, Alabama during the Civil Rights Movement (placed at Birmingham) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombingham Bonanza, Arkansas Racial violence · City in Arkansas, United States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonanza%2C_Arkansas Byron De La Beckwith Racial violence · American white supremacist (1920–2001) (placed at Jackson) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byron_De_La_Beckwith C. L. Daniel Racial violence · American WWI veteran (1896–1921) (placed at Tulsa) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._L._Daniel CeCe McDonald Racial violence · American activist (born 1989) (placed at Chicago) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CeCe_McDonald Cecil Price Racial violence · American deputy sheriff and klansman (1938–2001) (placed at Jackson) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil_Price Charles Thurber Lynched · American lynching victim (placed at Grand Forks) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Thurber Chinese Massacre Cove Site of murder in Oregon, U.S. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Massacre_Cove Circleville Massacre Lynched · 1866 lynching of Native Americans by Mormons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circleville_Massacre Clayborn Temple Racial violence · Historic church in Tennessee, United States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clayborn_Temple Clementa C. Pinckney Racial violence · American politician and pastor (1973–2015) (placed at Charleston) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clementa_C._Pinckney Clubfoot George Lynched · 19th-century American criminal (placed at Massachusetts) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clubfoot_George De Leon, Texas Racial violence · City in Texas, United States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Leon%2C_Texas Delphine LaLaurie Racial violence · American serial killer (1787–1849) (placed at former 1st arrondissement of Paris) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphine_LaLaurie Donald Henry Gaskins Racial violence · American serial killer (1933–1991) (placed at Columbia) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Henry_Gaskins Duck Hill, Mississippi Lynched · Town in Mississippi, United States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_Hill%2C_Mississippi Dylann Roof Racial violence · American mass murderer (born 1994) (placed at Columbia) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dylann_Roof Ebenezer Creek Stream in the U.S. state of Georgia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebenezer_Creek Edgar Ray Killen Racial violence · Ku Klux Klan organizer convicted of manslaughter (1925–2018) (placed at Mississippi State Penitentiary) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Ray_Killen Elbert Williams Lynched · American, head of the local NAACP, who was murdered for registering to vote (placed at Brownsville) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elbert_Williams Elias Abuelazam Racial violence · Arab-Israeli murder convict (born 1976) (placed at Ramla) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elias_Abuelazam Elijah Parish Lovejoy Lynched · American minister, journalist, and abolitionist (1802–1837) (placed at Alton) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elijah_Parish_Lovejoy Ella May Wiggins Lynched · American labor unionist (1900–1929) (placed at Gaston County) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ella_May_Wiggins Ellen Watson Lynched · American rancher (1860–1889) (placed at Natrona County) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Watson Emmett Till Lynched · American lynching victim (1941–1955) (placed at Drew) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_Till Erwin, Tennessee Lynched · Town in Tennessee, United States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin%2C_Tennessee Euclid Beach Park Racial violence · Amusement park in Cleveland, Ohio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclid_Beach_Park Fountain Green massacre Lynched https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountain_Green_massacre Frances Thompson Racial violence · American trans woman and anti-rape activist (placed at North Memphis) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Thompson Frank Little (unionist) Lynched · American labor leader (1879–1917) (placed at Butte) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Little_%28unionist%29 Frank Spisak Racial violence · American serial killer (1951–2011) (placed at Southern Ohio Correctional Facility) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Spisak George W. Lee Racial violence · American civil rights activist (1903–1955) (placed at Midnight) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Lee Greenwood District, Tulsa Racial violence · Place in Oklahoma, United States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwood_District%2C_Tulsa Gus Courts Racial violence · American activist (1887–1969) (placed at Pickens) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gus_Courts Hard Scrabble and Snow Town Racial violence · Former neighborhood in Providence, Rhode Island, United States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_Scrabble_and_Snow_Town Hattie Cotton Elementary School bombing Racial violence · 1957 bombing by segregationists in Nashville, Tennessee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hattie_Cotton_Elementary_School_bombing Henry C. Magruder Racial violence · Confederate guerrilla and war criminal (placed at Kentucky) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_C._Magruder Henry Newton Brown Lynched · American Old West gunman (placed at Medicine Lodge) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Newton_Brown Henry Plummer Lynched · American prospector, lawman, and outlaw (1832–1864) (placed at Bannack) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Plummer Herman Tucker Racial violence · Implicated in the murders of three civil rights workers in Mississippi in 1964 (placed at Neshoba County) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Tucker Horst Günther Lynched · German soldier and prisoner of war (1920–1944) (placed at Magdeburg) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horst_G%C3%BCnther Hyrum Smith Lynched · American Mormon leader (1800–1844) (placed at Carthage) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyrum_Smith Isaac Woodard Racial violence · American veteran and racial abuse victim (1919–1992) (placed at The Bronx) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Woodard Isaiah Nixon Lynched · African-American murder victim (died 1948) (placed at Montgomery County) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaiah_Nixon J. Rufus Bratton Racial violence · Leader in the Ku Klux Klan (placed at York County) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Rufus_Bratton James Cameron (activist) Racial violence · American civil rights advocate (1914–2006) (placed at Milwaukee) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Cameron_%28activist%29 James Chaney Lynched · American civil rights activist and murder victim (1943–1964) (placed at Mississippi) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Chaney James Ford Seale Racial violence · American Ku Klux Klan member and convict (placed at Terre Haute) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Ford_Seale James Mason (neo-Nazi) Racial violence · American neo-Nazi (born 1952) (placed at Chillicothe) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Mason_%28neo-Nazi%29 James Meredith Racial violence · American civil rights activist (born 1933) (placed at Kosciusko) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Meredith James Myles Hinton Racial violence · American minister, business person, civil rights leader (1891–1970) (placed at Augusta) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Myles_Hinton James Reeb Lynched · American activist and minister (1927–1965) (placed at Birmingham) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Reeb Jeremy Strohmeyer Racial violence · American convicted murderer (born 1978) (placed at Long Beach) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Strohmeyer Jim Miller (outlaw) Lynched · American Old West outlaw (1861–1909) (placed at Ada) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Miller_%28outlaw%29 Jim Williams (militia leader) Lynched · African-American militia leader (1830–1871) (placed at York County) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Williams_%28militia_leader%29 Joe Pullen Lynched · African-American lynching victim (c. 1883–1923) (placed at Drew) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Pullen John Armfield Racial violence · American slave trader (1797–1871) (placed at Beersheba Springs) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Armfield John Proctor (FBI agent) Racial violence · FBI agent (placed at Meridian) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Proctor_%28FBI_agent%29 John W. Stephens Lynched · American politician (placed at Guilford County) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_W._Stephens Johnson Chesnut Whittaker Racial violence · Early African-American West Point cadet (1858–1931) (placed at Orangeburg) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnson_Chesnut_Whittaker Jon Burge Racial violence · Chicago police chief charged with misconduct (1947–2018) (placed at Apollo Beach) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Burge Josefa Segovia Lynched · American lynching victim https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josefa_Segovia Joseph Alfred Slade Lynched · American gunman (1831–1864) (placed at Carlyle) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Alfred_Slade Joseph Christopher Racial violence · American serial killer (1955–1993) (placed at Attica Correctional Facility) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Christopher Joseph Kahahawai Lynched · Native Hawaiian prizefighter (1909–1932) (placed at Honolulu) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Kahahawai Joseph Paul Franklin Racial violence · American serial killer (1950–2013) (placed at Bonne Terre) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Paul_Franklin Joseph Smith Lynched · Founder of the Latter Day Saint movement (1805–1844) (placed at Carthage) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Smith Joseph Standing Lynched · American murder victim and missionary (placed at Varnell) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Standing Joseph Sullivan (FBI agent) Racial violence · American security inspector (1917–2002) (placed at Manhattan) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Sullivan_%28FBI_agent%29 Juan Moya Lynched · Mexican army officer (1806–1874) (placed at Goliad) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Moya Judge Edward Aaron Racial violence · African-American handyman (1923–1991) (placed at Birmingham) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judge_Edward_Aaron Julius L. Chambers Racial violence · American lawyer, civil rights leader and educator (placed at Charlotte) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_L._Chambers Katsu Goto Lynched · Japanese merchant (placed at Ōiso-machi) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katsu_Goto Killing of Vincent Chin Lynched · 1982 homicide in Michigan, U.S. (placed at Highland Park) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Vincent_Chin LaFayette, Alabama Lynched · City in Alabama, United States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaFayette%2C_Alabama Lamar Smith (activist) Lynched · African-American civil rights activist (placed at Brookhaven) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamar_Smith_%28activist%29 Laurence C. Jones Racial violence · President of Piney Woods Country Life School in Rankin County, Mississippi (placed at Jackson) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_C._Jones Lawrence Rainey Racial violence · American sheriff and klansman (1923–2002) (placed at Meridian) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Rainey Leo Frank Lynched · Jewish-American lynching victim (1884–1915) (placed at Marietta) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Frank Lester Street Massacre Racial violence · 2008 mass murder in Tennessee, U.S. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lester_Street_Massacre Lin Newborn Racial violence · American activist (placed at Nevada) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lin_Newborn Louie Sam Lynched · Indigenous Canadian murder victim (placed at Abbotsford) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louie_Sam Louis Allen Racial violence · American businessman and murder victim (placed at Amite County) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Allen Lynching in Leon County Lynched · (placed at Leon County) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_in_Leon_County Lynching of Ballie Crutchfield Lynched · 1901 murder of a Black woman in Tennessee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_Ballie_Crutchfield Lynching of Bernice Raspberry Lynched · 1927 murder of a Black man in Mississippi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_Bernice_Raspberry Lynching of Claude Neal Lynched · African American who was lynched in the U.S. (placed at Marianna) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_Claude_Neal Lynching of Cordie Cheek Lynched · American lynching victim (1916–1933) (placed at Maury County) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_Cordie_Cheek Lynching of Dan Anderson Lynched · 1927 murder of a Black man in Mississippi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_Dan_Anderson Lynching of Felix Hall Lynched · 1941 lynching of African American soldier in Georgia, United States (placed at Fort Benning) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_Felix_Hall Lynching of Francis McIntosh Lynched · Murder of boatman in St. Louis (1836) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_Francis_McIntosh Lynching of Jesse Thornton Lynched · African American who was lynched in the U.S. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_Jesse_Thornton Lynching of Jim McIlherron Lynched · 1918 lynching in Tennessee, United States (placed at Estill Springs) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_Jim_McIlherron Lynching of Jim McMillan Lynched · 1919 racial violence in Alabama (placed at Bibb County) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_Jim_McMillan Lynching of John Cecil Jones Lynched · American lynching victim (1915–1946) (placed at Webster Parish) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_John_Cecil_Jones Lynching of John Tucker Lynched · 1845 murder in Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_John_Tucker Lynching of Joseph Vermillion Lynched · Murder case in the United States (placed at Annapolis) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_Joseph_Vermillion Lynching of Josh Shorter Lynched · African American who was lynched in the U.S. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_Josh_Shorter Lynching of Matthew Williams Lynched · African American lynched in 1931 (placed at Salisbury) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_Matthew_Williams Lynching of Robert Lewis Lynched · 1892 lynching in New York, US (placed at Port Jervis) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_Robert_Lewis Lynching of Roosevelt Townes and Robert McDaniels Lynched · 1937 lynching in the United States (placed at Duck Hill) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_Roosevelt_Townes_and_Robert_McDaniels Lynching of Sam Hose Lynched · African American who was lynched in the U.S. (placed at Coweta County) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_Sam_Hose Lynching of Samuel Bierfield and Lawrence Bowman Lynched · First Jew lynched in the United States (placed at Franklin) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_Samuel_Bierfield_and_Lawrence_Bowman Lynching of Will Sherod Lynched · Lynching of a Black man in Missouri, 1927 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_Will_Sherod Lynching of women in the United States Racial violence · (placed at United States) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_women_in_the_United_States Macedonia Baptist Church arson Racial violence · Historic black church burned down by the KKK in South Carolina https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macedonia_Baptist_Church_arson Marcus Wesson Racial violence · American mass murderer (born 1946) (placed at Kansas) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Wesson Medgar Evers Racial violence · American civil rights activist (1925–1963) (placed at Jackson) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medgar_Evers Michael Schwerner Racial violence · American civil rights activist and murder victim (1939–1964) (placed at Mississippi) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Schwerner Mingo Jack Lynched · Black man lynched by a mob over false rape accusation in 1886 (placed at Eatontown) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mingo_Jack Mount Zion AME Church (Greeleyville, South Carolina) Racial violence · 1995 church arson by the KKK in South Carolina https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Zion_AME_Church_%28Greeleyville%2C_South_Carolina%29 Mount Zion Baptist Church (Tulsa) Racial violence · Historic church in Oklahoma, United States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Zion_Baptist_Church_%28Tulsa%29 Murder in Coweta County Lynched · 1948 killing in U.S. state of Georgia (placed at Coweta County) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_in_Coweta_County Murder of Brooke Hart and the lynching of Thomas Harold Thurmond and John M. Holmes Lynched · Kidnapping and murder victim in California (1911–1933) (placed at San Francisco Bay Area) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Brooke_Hart_and_the_lynching_of_Thomas_Harold_Thurmond_and_John_M._Holmes Murder of Carol Jenkins Racial violence · African American woman murdered in 1968 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Carol_Jenkins Murder of Jimmie Lee Jackson Racial violence · American civil rights activist (1938–1965) (placed at Marion) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Jimmie_Lee_Jackson Murder of Oneal Moore Racial violence · 1965 murder of an American police officer (placed at Varnado) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Oneal_Moore Murder of Robert Brooks Racial violence · 2024 US homicide in custody https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Robert_Brooks Murder of Willie Edwards Racial violence · 1957 murder by the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama (placed at Alabama River) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Willie_Edwards Murder of Yolanda Panek Racial violence · Murder case in Portland, Oregon, U.S. (placed at Portland) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Yolanda_Panek Nat King Cole Racial violence · American singer and jazz pianist (1919–1965) (placed at Santa Monica) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nat_King_Cole Octavius Catto Racial violence · U.S. civil rights activist and educator (1839–1871) (placed at Philadelphia) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octavius_Catto Oscarville, Georgia Racial violence · Underwater ghost town and historical Black community in the U.S. state of Georgia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscarville%2C_Georgia Ossian Sweet Racial violence · American physician (1895–1960) (placed at Detroit) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ossian_Sweet Pierce City, Missouri Lynched · City in Missouri, United States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierce_City%2C_Missouri Recy Taylor Racial violence · American civil rights activist (1919–2017) (placed at Abbeville) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recy_Taylor Richard Wayne Snell Racial violence · American white supremacist and murder convict (1930–1995) (placed at Tucker Unit) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Wayne_Snell Robert Prager Lynched · German immigrant lynched in the US (placed at Collinsville) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Prager Rochester bombings Racial violence · 1970 bombings in New York, U.S. (placed at Rochester) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochester_bombings Rocky Springs, Mississippi Lynched · Ghost town in Mississippi, United States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Springs%2C_Mississippi Rodney King Racial violence · Black American victim of police brutality (1965–2012) (placed at Rialto) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_King Roman Ducksworth Jr. Racial violence · African-American military police officer shot and killed in Taylorsville, Mississippi (placed at Taylorsville) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Ducksworth_Jr. Rudger Clawson Religious leader (1857–1943) (placed at Salt Lake City) Clawson, Rudger 22https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudger_Clawson Samuel Bowers Racial violence · American white supremacist leader (1924–2006) (placed at Mississippi State Penitentiary) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Bowers Samuel Little Racial violence · American serial killer (1940–2020) (placed at Lancaster) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Little Shubuta, Mississippi Lynched · Town in Mississippi, United States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shubuta%2C_Mississippi Sidney Dearing Racial violence · American businessperson (1870–1953) (placed at Alameda County) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Dearing Stacey Koon Racial violence · American criminal and former police officer (born 1950) (placed at Lynwood) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stacey_Koon Tom Bell (outlaw) Lynched · American outlaw (1825–1856) (placed at Firebaugh) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Bell_%28outlaw%29 Toyah, Texas Lynched · Town in Reeves County, Texas, United States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyah%2C_Texas Vernon Dahmer Racial violence · American civil rights activist (1908–1966) (placed at Hattiesburg) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernon_Dahmer Viola Liuzzo Lynched · American activist and murder victim (1925–1965) (placed at Montgomery) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viola_Liuzzo Virgil Lamar Ware Racial violence · African-American teenager shot dead after the Birmingham church bombing (placed at Birmingham) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgil_Lamar_Ware Walter Manning Racial violence · African-American pilot and veteran (1920–1945) (placed at Austria) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Manning Waverly, Virginia Lynched · Town in Virginia, United States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waverly%2C_Virginia Werner Drechsler Lynched · German POW murdered by fellow POWs in Arizona (1917–1944) (placed at Camp Papago Park) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Drechsler Wesley Everest Lynched · American murder victim (placed at Centralia) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wesley_Everest Will Reynolds Lynched · American criminal (ca. 1867–1902) (placed at Tuscumbia) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Reynolds Winfred Rembert Racial violence · African American artist (1945–2021) (placed at Americus) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winfred_Rembert Wisconsin v. Kizer Racial violence · Criminal case in Kenosha, Wisconsin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_v._Kizer Wyatt Outlaw Lynched · African American who was lynched in the U.S. (placed at Caswell County Courthouse) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyatt_Outlaw Zirl A. Palmer Racial violence · American businessman and civil rights activist (1920–1982) (placed at Lexington) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zirl_A._Palmer Pages: 1 2