In recent decades, scholars have explored much of the history of mob violence in the American South, especially in the years after Reconstruction. However, the

In recent decades, scholars have explored much of the history of mob violence in the American South, especially in the years after Reconstruction. However, the

James T. Scott's 1923 lynching in the college town of Columbia, Missouri, was precipitated by a case of mistaken identity. Falsely accused of rape, the World Wa

We forget that racist violence permeated the lower Midwest from the pre-Civil War period until the 1930s. From Kansas to Ohio, whites orchestrated extraordinary

On July 9, 1883, twenty men stormed the jail in Morehouse Parish, Louisiana, kidnapped Henderson Lee, a black man charged with larceny, and hanged him. Events l