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A mob of fifty men drag a white man, charged with the “usual crime” of rape, from his cell late at night and lynch him.

The Manchester, Virginia Evening Leader comments on African American’s resistance to “Lynch-law” and says it is unwarranted.

The Richmond Virginia Daily Times states its opposition to the ways the people of Alexandria acted by lynching the African American felon.

A bill is passed making officials liable for lynchings that occur when they had authority.

The national government denies an anti-lynching petition despite the 3,200 "colored-person" signatures.

A white mob of would be murderers attempt to lynch a black man in response to an assault charge on a white man.

A white mob hangs a black man guilty of “double murder.”

A white mob drags a colored man, guilty of “the assaulting and killing of two little girls,” “through the streets at the end of a rope for 200 yards” and watches him being lynched

The “double murder” of two white men leads to the “lynching” of a black man.

A black man who was convicted of murdering a white man was lynched by a group of white men with the help of the sheriff.