Most of the lynchings occurred in the American South, as the majority of African Americans lived there, but racially motivated lynchings also occurred in the Midwest and border states. reached their height from the 1890s to the 1920s, and they primarily victimised ethnic minorities. 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. Lynching was the widespread occurrence of extrajudicial killings which began in the United States' preāCivil War South in the 1830s and ended during the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s. Six African-American men lynched in Lee County, Georgia, on Janu(retouched photo due to material deterioration) Lynching of John William Clark in Cartersville, Georgia, September 1930, after killing Police Chief J. A professional photographer took pictures of the lynching as it unfolded. He was repeatedly lowered and raised onto a fire for about two hours. The body of George Meadows, lynched near the Pratt Mines in Jefferson County, Alabama, on JanuLynching of Jesse Washington in Waco, Texas, on May 15, 1916. See also: List of lynching victims in the United States
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