* 1884 – Leo Frank, American factory superintendent, victim of lynching ( d. 1915 )

In response to the lynching of Leo Frank, Sigmund Livingston founded the Anti-Defamation League ( ADL ) under the sponsorship of B ' nai B ' rith.

The lynching of Leo Frank coincided with and helped spark the revival of the Ku Klux Klan.

The revival of the Ku Klux Klan was emboldened by the release of D. W. Griffith's Klan-glorifying film The Birth of a Nation, and by the lynching of Leo Frank, who was convicted in the murder of Mary Phagan.

In 1915, he turned up at the scene of the lynching of Leo Frank with Judge Newt Morris the morning after the lynching, and he drove the vehicle which took away Frank's body to the undertaker.

Brown was introduced to Harold Prince through his association with Daisy Prince, and was hired to write songs for the Broadway musical Parade, based on the trial and lynching of Leo Frank.

* The Lynching of Leo Frank, an interpretation of the lynching of Leo Frank.

He delayed his plans until the media-inspired lynching of Leo Frank, the accused murderer of Mary Phagan.

They didn't always see eye-to-eye, however ; Brown was vehemently opposed to Slaton's pardon of Leo Frank in 1915 and since his death in 1932, Brown has often been implicated as a conspirator in Frank's lynching.

newspaper article about Leo Frank lynching, 1915

political cartoon criticizing the lynching of Leo Frank, 1915

This included the lynching of Frank Little, one of the leaders of the Industrial Workers of the World, the Sacco and Vanzetti case, the deportation of Emma Goldman, and the conviction of the trade union leader Tom Mooney.

Numerous instances such as the lynching of Frank Little, the case of Sacco and Vanzetti, the Everett Massacre, or the Estevan Riot, to name only a few, clearly show that violent and brutal means were common place in class conflict.

He made a vehement and complete denial, saying that he was being subjected to a " high-tech lynching for uppity blacks " by white liberals who were seeking to block a black conservative from taking a seat on the Supreme Court.

The assimilation policies are usually enforced by the state, but violence against minorities is not always state initiated: it can occur in the form of mob violence such as lynching or pogroms.

They were supervised by Ford's overseer Chapin, who saved Northup from a lynching after he fought with Tibeats.

Although vastly outnumbered by the growing crowd out on the street, Sheriff McCullough was determined to prevent another lynching and turned the men away.

Violence may be executed by the state, as in laws prescribing corporal punishment for homosexual acts ( see homosexuality laws ), or by individuals engaging in intimidation, mobbing, assault, or lynching ( see gay bashing, trans bashing ).

A lynching carried out by the San Francisco Vigilance Movement | San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1856.

* " The lynching of Nestorius " by Stephen M. Ulrich, concentrates on the political pressures around the Council of Ephesus and analyzes the rediscovered Bazaar of Nestorius.

The violence lasted several hours, including lynching and acts of torture in public places in all areas of Oran by civilians supported by the ALN — the armed wing of the FLN, at the time evolving into the Algerian Army — resulting in 3, 000 missing people:

The large ranches defended against cattle rustling often by forbidding their employees from owning cattle and by lynching ( or threatening to lynch ) suspected rustlers.

Though not explicitly connected with Johnson County, The Ox-Bow Incident ( 1940 ) by Walter Van Tilburg Clark is a novel that dramatizes and condemns a lynching of the sort that Wister's novel appears to defend.

Critics ( such as Jane Gaines, Ronald Green, and Pearl Bowser and Louise Spence ) celebrated the skill with which Micheaux intercut the lynching of the Landry family with the attempted rape of Sylvia by Gridlestone.

( One such public lynching is the catalyst behind a " Lynching Resolution " being discussed by both the Waco City Council and the McLennan County Commissioners Court.

They had been steadily reported by the Freedman's Bureau, whose reports included a mob lynching of a freedman in Appling in July 1866.

An African American killed by hanging in a lynching, 1925

Today lynching is a felony in all states of the United States, defined by some codes of law as " Any act of violence inflicted by a mob upon the body of another person which results in the death of the person ," with a " mob " being defined as " the assemblage of two or more persons, without color or authority of law, for the premeditated purpose and with the premeditated intent of committing an act of violence upon the person of another.

The ideology behind lynching, directly connected with denial of political and social equality, was stated forthrightly by Benjamin Tillman, governor of South Carolina and later a United States Senator:

The Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill as it appeared in 1922 stated: " To assure to persons within the jurisdiction of every State the equal protection of the laws, and to punish the crime of lynching .... Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the phrase ' mob or riotous assemblage ,' when used in this act, shall mean an assemblage composed of three or more persons acting in concert for the purpose of depriving any person of his life without authority of law as a punishment for or to prevent the commission of some actual or supposed public offense.

On November 23, 2004, in the Tlahuac lynching, three Mexican undercover federal agents doing a narcotics investigation were lynched in the town of San Juan Ixtayopan ( Mexico City ) by an angry crowd who saw them taking photographs and suspected they were trying to abduct children from a primary school.

Authorities suspect the lynching was provoked by the persons being investigated.

In the 2000 Ramallah lynching, a Palestinian mob, assisted – according to Israel – by Palestinian police, beat to death two Israeli reservists who had entered the city – by mistake, according to Israel.

These events also targeted individuals, as in the 1891 mob lynching of Joe Coe, a worker in Omaha, Nebraska.

Following the abandonment of the Vehmic courts, the term acquired a connotation of mob rule and lynching.

" X-Men comic books have often portrayed mutants as victims of mob violence, evoking images of the lynching of African Americans in the age before the American civil rights movement.

** In the last mass lynching in the United States, a mob of white men shoot and kill two African-American couples near Moore's Ford Bridge in Georgia.

In the fall of 1919, following Red Summer, postwar social and economic tensions, the earlier hiring of blacks as strikebreakers, and job uncertainty contributed to a mob from South Omaha lynching Willy Brown and the ensuing Omaha Race Riot.

In the ensuing fight both sides suffered some casualties ; captured German nonuniformed armed insurgents were executed on the spot and some mob lynching was also reported.

Chinciński discussed newly discovered documents of the Abwehr that show that there were indeed plans for fifth column and diversion activities in Bydgoszcz ; he discussed the bias of the Polish communist era historiography, which minimized cases of Polish mob lynching of ethnic Germans, which did occur in Bydgoszcz.

A white mob attacked the Landry family, lynching the parents and hunting down their son, who escaped after nearly being shot.

Lake City was the site of a notorious lynching on February 22, 1898, that resulted in the mob murders of the city's black postmaster and his infant daughter.

Ravaillac was immediately seized by police and taken to the Hôtel de Retz to avoid a mob lynching.

Arguing against mob violence and lynching, Abraham Lincoln declared in his 1838 Lyceum speech that the Constitution and the laws of the United States ought to become the ‘ political religion ’ of each American.

Earlier that year, Tillman had coupled a statement opposing lynching with a declaration that he would " willingly lead a mob in lynching a Negro who had committed an assault upon a white woman.

The story begins with a historical event — the 1672 lynching of the Dutch Grand Pensionary ( roughly equivalent to a modern Prime Minister ) Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis, by a wild mob of their own countrymen — considered by many as one of the most painful episodes in Dutch history, described by Dumas with a dramatic intensity.

This was a relatively rare form of mob punishment for Republican African Americans in the post-bellum U. S. South, as its goal is typically pain and humiliation rather than death ( as in the more common lynching and burning alive ).

Randolph remembered vividly the night his mother sat in the front room of their house with a loaded shotgun across her lap, while his father tucked a pistol under his coat and went off to prevent a mob from lynching a man at the local county jail.

In May 1927, Martineau called out the National Guard in response to the lynching of an African-American prisoner by a mob of 2, 000 to 5, 000 people in Little Rock.

The case includes a frameup, all-white jury, rushed trials, an attempted lynching, angry mob, and miscarriage of justice.

The last time was after he criticized Judge Luke E. Lawfull for his failure to indict individuals linked to a mob lynching of a free black man.