lynching

(noun)

Execution of a person by mob action without due process of law, especially hanging.

Examples of lynching in the following topics:

  • The NAACP

    • Most Black people in the US were descendants of people who had lived in slavery in the US, and particularly in the South they experienced legal segregation, limitations on civil rights and liberties, and high rates of violence including lynching.
    • In the early years the NAACP campaigned vigorously against lynching, voter suppression laws, for education rights, and blocked the nomination of a segregationist Supreme Court Judge.

  • The Cabinet

    • Lynch for the second term.

  • Women in American Politics

    • Among its objectives were equal rights, eliminating lynching, and defeating Jim Crow laws.

  • The Establishment Clause: Separation of Church and State

    • The inclusion of religious symbols in public holiday displays came before the Supreme Court in Lynch v.