Lynching in the United States
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Lynching, the practice of killing people by extrajudicial mob action, occurred in the United States chiefly from the late 18th century through the 1960s. Some today will argue that lynching continues as a practice veiled under the mask of police brutality and less publicized vigilantisms.
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See also
- "And you are lynching Negroes", Soviet Union response to United States' allegations of human-rights violations in the Soviet Union
- Domestic terrorism
- East St. Louis Riot of 1917
- Hanging judge
- Hate crime laws in the United States
- Mass racial violence in the United States
- New York Draft Riots of 1863
- Omaha Race Riot of 1919
- Red Summer of 1919
- Rosewood, Florida, race riot of 1923
- Tarring and feathering
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