Leo Frank

Leo Frank

male, deceased (1915)
Leo Max Frank (April 17, 1884 - August 17, 1915) was an American Jew, whose lynching by a mob of prominent citizens in Marietta, Georgia, in 1915...
Abel Meeropol

Abel Meeropol

male, deceased (1986)
Abel Meeropol (1903 - 1986) was an American writer best known under his pseudonym Lewis Allan, under which he wrote the anti-lynching poem "Strange...
Jesse Washington

Jesse Washington

male
Jesse Washington was an African American farmhand from Waco, Texas. On May 15, 1916, after being convicted of the murder of a local woman, he was...

Jim Miller

male, deceased (1909)
James B. "Killer" Miller, (1866-April 19, 1909) was also known as Deacon Jim because of his habit of preaching when drunk, was an outlaw and...
Charles Lynch

Charles Lynch

male, deceased (1796)
Charles Lynch (1736 - October 29, 1796) was a Virginia planter and American Patriot who headed an irregular court formed in central Virginia to...
Michael Donald

Michael Donald

male, deceased (1981)
Michael Donald (July 24, 1961 - March 20, 1981) was picked at random as the victim of a lynching by two Ku Klux Klan members in Mobile, Alabama in...
Sam Hose

Sam Hose

male, deceased (1899)
Sam Hose (c. 1875 - April 23, 1899) was an African American worker who was brutally tortured and executed by a lynch mob in Coweta County, Georgia....
William Lynch

William Lynch

male
Captain William Lynch of Pittsylvania County, Virginia practiced lynching circa 1780. It is believed that lynching and Lynch law are named after...
Thomas Shipp

Thomas Shipp

male, deceased (1930)
Thomas Shipp was an African-American who was lynched on August 7, 1930 in Marion, Indiana along with Abram Smith. They had been arrested the night...
Louie Sam

Louie Sam

male, deceased (1884)
Louie Sam was a member of the Stó:lō First Nation in British Columbia who was lynched by an American mob. Sam was 14 at the time these events oc...