Lynchings of Women in the United States: The Recorded Cases, by Kerry Segrave

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By Kerry Segrave

among 1850 and 1950, not less than one hundred fifteen girls have been lynched by way of mobs within the usa. the vast majority of those ladies have been black. This publication examines the phenomenon of the lynching of girls, a way more infrequent occurence than the lynching of fellows. Over a similar hundred 12 months interval coated during this textual content, greater than 1,000 white males have been lynched, whereas millions of black males have been murdered via mobs. Of specific significance during this exam is the function of race in lynching, relatively the rise within the variety of lynchings of black ladies because the century stepped forward. info are provided—when available—in an try to shine a gentle in this kind of lethal mob violence.

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