There were at least 4,743 lynchings in the U.S. from 1882 to 1968, NAACP said. A pair of presidential hopefuls joined forces on Thursday as a part of a rejuvenated effort to make lynching a federal ...

Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr. is the last living witness to one of America’s most notorious lynchings. He was with his cousin, Emmett Till, in 1955 when the 14-year-old was accused of whistling at a white ...

PIERCE CITY, Mo. — Pierce City residents gathered Tuesday to remember a lynching 124 years earlier, an event one historian called a “turning point” that opened the door to other lynchings in Southwest ...

Every time a lynching occurred in the U.S. between 1920 and 1936, the NAACP flew this flag from their headquarters on Fifth Avenue in New York. Library of Congress. Can one flag really change public ...

The Carencro community unveiled a historical marker honoring Louis Senegal and Antoine Domingue, two Black men lynched in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The marker, at 409 Veterans Dr. in ...

A historical marker telling the story of a Black man lynched in 1902 after being accused of killing a white man was unveiled in Leesburg, Virginia, Wednesday. Thousands of cars travel through the ...