lynch

In 1962, the white lawyer in “To Kill a Mockingbird” confronts a lynch mob intent on hanging his client, an innocent Black man, later telling the jury, “In our courts, all men are created equal.”

From New York Times ● Sep. 7, 2022

Angry readers wrote to The Times in response to my favorable review of the series, insisting I was part of a lynch mob: “Shame on you!”

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 14, 2021

Fair and open elections are the lynch pin of our democracy.

From Washington Times ● Feb. 27, 2019

I learned that my fellow Seattleites found equivalency between a lynch mob and a mere Civil War re-enactment.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 29, 2017

“Oh, that. Well, to hear the Post tell it, we lynch ’em for breakfast; the Journal doesn’t care; and the Times is so wrapped up in its duty to posterity it bores you to death.

From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee

US President Joe Biden established a national monument to honour Emmett Till, a black teenager who was lynched in 1955 in Mississippi, and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, on Tuesday.

From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2023

“Leopoldstadt” went on to win best play, while best musical revival went to another searing work about antisemitism: “Parade,” starring Ben Platt as Leo Frank, a Jewish man who was lynched in 1915 in Georgia.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 12, 2023

The white woman who accused Black teenager Emmett Till of making improper advances before he was lynched in Mississippi in 1955 has died in hospice care in Louisiana, a coroner’s report shows.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 27, 2023

He called Arbery the “Emmett Till of our day,” referencing the Black 14-year-old lynched in 1955.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 15, 2021

As of 1920, about 13 out of every 100 black children died in infancy, or roughly 20,000 children each year—compared to 28 people who were lynched in a year.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt

Her father, the late actor Henry Fonda, witnessed the lynching of a Black man during the 1919 Omaha race riots when he was 14, casting him into becoming a lifelong liberal.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2025

It was only in 2022 that the US signed the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act into law, which makes lynching a federal hate crime offence.

From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2025

In spite of all that, Diddy's mother recently defended her son on Sunday and accused the media and others of engaging in a "public lynching."

From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2024

The law makes lynching a federal hate crime.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 9, 2023

Mrs. Malloy says Negro people came here to escape lynching and inhumane treatment.

From "Betty Before X" by Ilyasah Shabazz and Renée Watson