Lynching

Lynching is violence, usually murder, conceived by its perpetrators as extra-legal execution, or used as a terrorist method of enforcing social domination. Victims of lynching have generally been members of groups marginalized by society.

United States

Lynching, in the United States, has influenced and been influenced by the major social conflicts in the country, revolving around the American frontier, Reconstruction, and the civil rights movement. It was used on the frontier as a rough-and-ready method of punishing criminals, and also, after the Civil War, as a way of enforcing white political, social, and economic dominance.

Related Topics:
Lynching - American frontier - Reconstruction - Civil rights movement - Civil War

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