Lynching was a popular method of community justice in the early 1900’s and the Southern states in the US did a lot more of it than all the other US states.

The reasons seem just insane, if you read the lists you run into many men lynched for such capitol crimes as:

• Talking back
• Cursing a white woman
• Entering a woman’s room
• Mistaken Identity (yes, that is a reason on one of them, those fools could not even come up with a better cover story than just Whoops!)
• Outraging a girl
• Bad language
• Race prejudice (haha, go figure that one)
• Voodooism
• Arguing
• Being a foreign worker (Say what? never knew working was a crime)
• Dangerous Character
• Violated Ferry law
• Attempted a train wreck (huh?)
• An awful lot of just pissing off some white woman
• and here is a great one: The daughter of a murderer / son of a murderer.
• The Unknown Outrageous act (thats always a sure thing… you see… its unknown, but someone did say it was outrageous! It was so outrageous, they could not even remember what it was)
  
• Angered the Klan

I look at that list in astonishment. Its just amazing how little value was placed on life not all that long ago where a mob would lynch a person for something as trivial as “insulting a woman”… Hell, if they kept that shit up, 2/3 of the male population would have been hanging from a tree before ever reaching puberty.

Here are the links to the full lists of Lynchings in the Southern US.

Louisianna Lynchings

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Georgia Lynchings

Mississippi Lynchings

Tennessee Lynchings

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and here is one of the worst excuses for a lynching in the great state of Kentucky for an entire family… babies and all

Mrs. Walker lynched for race prejudice

Mr. Walker lynched for cursing a white woman

3 walker children for race prejudice

Daughter and son walker lynched for race prejudice

and lastly baby walker lynched for race prejudice.

From how it reads it looks like 3 generations. Just sick

WOW… I never knew babies could be prejudiced against white folk since they can’t yet talk.