PRESENTATION OUTLINE
Lynching:
murder by mob without trial, often by hanging but also burning at the stake or shooting
The purpose was to punish an alleged transgressor, or to intimidate, control, or otherwise manipulate a specific sector of a population. In other words, race.
This was a public lynching.
From 1882 to 1968, over 200 anti-lynching bills were brought to congress and only 3 passed the house.
The recorded number of deaths related to lynch mobs are: 3,446 Blacks and 1,297 whites. And those are only the recorded ones.
You're probably asking yourself how does this affect society today? Well here's the most recent example:
3 freshmen at a college hung a noose on the statue of the first black student enrolled at the school as a joke about lynching and were kicked out, and that was only a couple months ago.
Overall, lynch mobs do not affect our country today but other horrible acts of racism still exist around the country.
