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Definition of Lynchings
1. lynching [n] - See also: lynching
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lynchings
Literary usage of Lynchings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Voice of the Negro 1919 by Robert Thomas Kerlin (1920)
"lynchings I. Number, Cause, Instances THE following report was printed throughout
the colored press: "75 Negroes Lynched—One a Woman, 7 Burned Alive, ..."
2. The Sanitarian by Medico-Legal Society of New York (1903)
"The lynchings of the negroes at Wilmington, Del., and Belleville, TIL, the efforts
of mobs to mete out punishment on negro criminals at East St. Louis and ..."
3. Handbook of Republican Institutions in the United States of America: Based by Dugald J. Bannatyne (1887)
"To summarise— Number of murders and homicides, Number of lynchings, . Total,
Add : number of legal executions, 1499 These figures do not, however, ..."
4. University of Michigan Publications by University of Michigan (1913)
"State, in each one of the following lynchings and riots there will be apparent
that feeling of bitterness which is so peculiarly felt toward the negro by ..."
5. The Color Line in Ohio: A History of Race Prejudice in a Typical Northern State by Frank Uriah Quillin (1913)
"... in each one of the following lynchings and riots there will be apparent that
feeling of bitterness which is so peculiarly felt toward the negro by the ..."
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