Sentences with phrase «white lynch mobs»
But the anarchy side is Southern juries refusing to convict white lynch mobs.
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Just three years before Trice arrived, a white mob in Duluth, 175 miles north of Minneapolis, lynched three black men who had come to town with the traveling circus, accused of raping a white woman.
But they still expected black people to move off of the sidewalk when a white person passed by, and to keep their mouths shut after a black person was lynched by a white mob.
EJI has documented more than 4,000 «racial terror lynchings» between 1877 to 1950 — black men, women, and children who were hanged, burned alive, shot, drowned, or beaten to death by white mobs.»
In the southern United States, in the late 19th century and first half of the 20th century, mobs of white people lynched black men for crimes that were presumed and never proven.