Lynchings Since 1865 – Major Lynchings
Isadore Banks (1895 – 1954)
Isadore Banks was a 59-year-old African American landowner who disappeared on June 4, 1954. Banks was born on July 15,...
Joseph (Joe) Martin (?-1904)
Joseph (Joe) Martin, an African American man, was lynched by a mob of three hundred white men in Laramie, Wyoming...
The Lynching of Joe Coe, 1891
Joe Coe, whose official name was George Smith, was an African-American man who lived in Omaha, Nebraska. Coe was a...
Lynching of Julia and Frazier Baker (1898)
Frazier Baker, a schoolteacher and married father of six, was appointed the first African American postmaster of Lake City, South Carolina, in July...
The Duluth Lynchings (1920)
By the 1920s lynchings of African Americans had become a standard practice across the nation. The multiple lynchings in Duluth, Minnesota, however, represent...
Jesse Washington Lynching
On the morning of May 15, 1916, approximately 15,000 people gathered near Waco, Texas, to witness the trial and lynching of Jesse...
Marion, Indiana Lynching (1930)
On August 7, 1930, a mob of ten to fifteen thousand whites abducted three young black men from the jail in...
James Byrd, Jr. (1949-1998)
James Byrd, Jr. is considered one of the last lynching victims in the United States. On the morning of June 7, 1998, 49-year-old...
Henry Smith (?-1893)
On Friday, February 3, 1893, Henry Smith was lynched in Paris, Texas, in front of an estimated 15,000 spectators. His death was one...
