Sentence examples for practice of lynching from inspiring English sources

The practice of lynching — there were more than a hundred and fifty lynchings in South Carolina between 1877 and 1950 — facilitated the disenfranchisement of blacks and the retention of political power in white hands.

The Steikers write, "The practice of lynching constituted 'a form of unofficial capital punishment' that in its heyday was even more common than the official kind".

The show contains some 60 photographs, picture postcards and assorted artifacts chronicling the practice of lynching from Illinois to Mississippi, between 1883 and 1960.

B1 An Exhibition on Lynching People lined up outside the Roth Horowitz gallery on Saturday to see an exhibition of photographs, picture postcards and artifacts chronicling the practice of lynching.

Mindich argues that this may have had the effect of normalizing the practice of lynching.

Hale posits that Washington's death signaled a transition in the practice of lynching, demonstrating its acceptance in modernized, 20th-century cities.

Supporters of lynching justified the practice as a way to assert dominance over African Americans, to whom they attributed a criminal nature.

White's principal objective became the abolition of lynching.

Each of these men has adopted an increasingly common practice of invoking lynching as a framework for their public travails.

More like lynching (a historic practice of white supremacist Christians) than a formal execution, crucifixion began with horrible forms of torture designed to create a long, agonizing death over days.

Why? Historically the black body has been subject to racial control, through centuries of slavery, lynching, sexual violence, reproductive legislation, surveillance, segregation, mass incarceration, police practices, and popular entertainment.