Add to ORKGRecently, while reading E. Merton Coulter\u27s classic history of antebellum Athens, College Life in the Old South (UGA Press, 1983 reprint), I came across a reference on page 247 to an Athens lynching occurring early in the Civil War. Having checked into the matter, I can now announce that, indeed, there definitely was at least one lynching in Athens prior to 1882. This lynching, possibly but not probably the first lynching in Athens, took place on Wednesday, July 16, 1862
Nearly three-quarters of a century ago there was a double-slaying, a murder-suicide, in the second-o...
The end of the Civil War in America (1861-1865) was a time for rebuilding in the shadow of grief. Ov...
Following an overview of the study in Chapter One, the second and third chapters include accounts of...
Recently, while reading E. Merton Coulter\u27s classic history of antebellum Athens, College Life in...
It happened the evening of Wednesday, Feb. 16, 1921. It began in downtown Athens when a mob forcibl...
In an article entitled “The Last Lynching in Athens,” published in the Flagpole on Sept. 10, 1997, I...
Image shows a gruesome photograph of an 1896 public lynching in Georgia.The caption written on the b...
"June 20, 1899"--P. [1].Cover title.Mode of access: Internet.digitizedThe online edition of this boo...
Historians who have studied the rampant lynching era in the Southern United States that spanned the ...
This article is a response to the Equal Justice Initiative’s 2015 report on lynching, which aimed to...
A century ago, Oct. 29, 1890, the man who committed the most horrible and notorious murders in the h...
A short introduction of the background of the Memphis Massacre of 1866 which prompted a U.S. Congres...
Nearly a century ago there was a double-slaying, a murder-suicide, in the second-oldest building sti...
Accounts of lynching in the United States have primarily focused on violence against African America...
This study examines an 1887 lynching in Pickens County, South Carolina, in which a black mob lynched...
Nearly three-quarters of a century ago there was a double-slaying, a murder-suicide, in the second-o...
The end of the Civil War in America (1861-1865) was a time for rebuilding in the shadow of grief. Ov...
Following an overview of the study in Chapter One, the second and third chapters include accounts of...
Recently, while reading E. Merton Coulter\u27s classic history of antebellum Athens, College Life in...
It happened the evening of Wednesday, Feb. 16, 1921. It began in downtown Athens when a mob forcibl...
In an article entitled “The Last Lynching in Athens,” published in the Flagpole on Sept. 10, 1997, I...
Image shows a gruesome photograph of an 1896 public lynching in Georgia.The caption written on the b...
"June 20, 1899"--P. [1].Cover title.Mode of access: Internet.digitizedThe online edition of this boo...
Historians who have studied the rampant lynching era in the Southern United States that spanned the ...
This article is a response to the Equal Justice Initiative’s 2015 report on lynching, which aimed to...
A century ago, Oct. 29, 1890, the man who committed the most horrible and notorious murders in the h...
A short introduction of the background of the Memphis Massacre of 1866 which prompted a U.S. Congres...
Nearly a century ago there was a double-slaying, a murder-suicide, in the second-oldest building sti...
Accounts of lynching in the United States have primarily focused on violence against African America...
This study examines an 1887 lynching in Pickens County, South Carolina, in which a black mob lynched...
Nearly three-quarters of a century ago there was a double-slaying, a murder-suicide, in the second-o...
The end of the Civil War in America (1861-1865) was a time for rebuilding in the shadow of grief. Ov...
Following an overview of the study in Chapter One, the second and third chapters include accounts of...