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Lynching is an extrajudicial killing by a group. It is most often used to characterize informal public executions by a mob in order to punish an alleged transgressor, punish a convicted transgressor, or intimidate people. It can also be an extreme form of informal group social control, and it is often conducted with the display of a public spectacle (often in the form of a hanging) for maximum intimidation. Instances of lynchings and similar mob violence can be found in every society. In the United States, where the word for "lynching" likely originated, lynchings of African Americans became frequent in the South during the period after the Reconstruction era, especially during the nadir of American race relations. Etymology The origins of the word lynch are obscure, but it likely originated during the American Revolution. The verb comes from the phrase Lynch Law, a term for a punishment without trial. Two Americans during this era are generally credited for coining the phrase: Charles Lynch (1736–1796) and William Lynch (1742–1820), both of whom lived in Virginia in the 1780s. Charles Lynch is more likely to have coined the phrase, as he was known to have used the term in 1782, while William Lynch is not known to have used the term until much later. There is no evidence that death was imposed as a punishment by either of the two men. In 1782, Charles Lynch wrote that his assistant had administered Lynch's law to Tories "for Dealing with the negroes &c". Charles Lynch was a Virginia Quaker,: 23ff planter, and Patriot who headed a county court in Virginia which imprisoned Loyalists during the American Revolutionary War, occasionally imprisoning them for up to a year. Although he lacked proper jurisdiction for detaining these persons, he claimed this right by arguing wartime necessity. Lynch was concerned that he might face legal action from one or more of those whom he had imprisoned, notwithstanding that the Patriots had won the war. This action by the Congress provoked controversy, and it was in connection with this that the term Lynch law, meaning the assumption of extrajudicial authority, came into common parlance in the United States. Lynch was not accused of racist bias. He acquitted Black people accused of murder on three occasions. He was accused, however, of ethnic prejudice in his handling of Welsh miners. William Lynch from Virginia claimed that the phrase was first used in a 1780 compact signed by him and his neighbors in Pittsylvania County. A 17th-century legend of James Lynch fitz Stephen, who was Mayor of Galway in Ireland in 1493, says that when his son was convicted of murder, the mayor hanged him from his own house. The story was proposed by 1904 as the origin of the word "lynch". It is dismissed by etymologists, both because of the distance in time and place from the alleged event to the word's later emergence, and because the incident did not constitute a lynching in the modern sense. The archaic verb linch, to beat severely with a pliable instrument, to chastise or to maltreat, has been proposed as the etymological source; but there is no evidence that the word has survived into modern times, so this claim is also considered implausible.: 16 Since the 1970s, and especially since the 1990s, there has been a false etymology claiming that the word lynching comes from a fictitious William Lynch speech that was given by an especially brutal slaveholder to other slaveholders to explain how to control their slaves. Although a real person named William Lynch might have been the origin of the word lynching, the real life William Lynch definitely did not give this speech, and it is unknown whether the real William Lynch even owned slaves at all. By country and region Lynchings took place in many parts of the world over the centuries. United States Lynchings took place in the United States both before and after the American Civil War, most commonly in Southern states and Western frontier settlements and most frequently in the late 19th century. They were often performed by self-appointed commissions, mobs, or vigilantes as a form of punishment for presumed criminal offences. From 1883 to 1941 there were 4,467 victims of lynching. Of these, 4,027 were male, and 99 female. 341 were of unknown sex but are assumed to be likely male. In terms of ethnicity, 3,265 were black, 1,082 were white, 71 were Mexican or of Mexican descent, 38 were American Indian, ten were Chinese, and one was Japanese. At the first recorded lynching, in St. Louis in 1835, a Black man named McIntosh who killed a deputy sheriff while being taken to jail was captured, chained to a tree, and burned to death on a corner lot downtown in front of a crowd of over 1,000 people. Mob violence arose as a means of enforcing White supremacy and it frequently verged on systematic political terrorism. After the American Civil War, secret white supremacist terrorist groups such as the Ku Klux Klan instigated extrajudicial assaults and killings due to a perceived loss of white power in America. Mobs usually alleged crimes for which they lynched Black people in order to instil fear. In the late 19th century, however, journalist Ida B. Wells showed that many presumed crimes were either exaggerated or had not even occurred. The magnitude of the extralegal violence which occurred during election campaigns, to prevent blacks from voting, reached epidemic proportions. The ideology behind lynching, directly connected to the denial of political and social equality, was stated forthrightly in 1900 by United States Senator Benjamin Tillman, who was previously governor of South Carolina: We of the South have never recognized the right of the negro to govern white men, and we never will. We have never believed him to be the equal of the white man, and we will not submit to his gratifying his lust on our wives and daughters without lynching him. Members of mobs that participated in lynchings often took photographs of what they had done to their victims. Souvenir taking, such as the taking of pieces of rope, clothing, branches and sometimes body parts was not uncommon. Some of those photographs were published and sold as postcards. Anti-lynching legislation and the civil rights movement The Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill was first introduced to the United States Congress in 1918 by Republican Congressman Leonidas C. Dyer of St. Louis, Missouri. The bill was passed by the United States House of Representatives in 1922, and in the same year it was given a favorable report by the United States Senate Committee. Its passage was blocked by White Democratic senators from the Solid South, the only representatives elected since the southern states had disenfranchised African Americans around the start of the 20th century. The Dyer Bill influenced later anti-lynching legislation, including the Costigan-Wagner Bill, which was also defeated in the US Senate. The song "Strange Fruit" was composed by Abel Meeropo.... Discover the Jacqueline Lynch popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Jacqueline Lynch books.
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The Iron Lung Mystery
Jacqueline T LynchElmer and Juliet are called to help an attorney who is settling the estate of a deceased victim of polio, who had been treated in an iron lung at home. At the time of his dea...
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Myths of the Modern Man
Jacqueline T LynchA late 21st century time traveler battles bards, druids, warrior queens and Roman cohorts for survival during the Celtic rebellion against the Romans in Britannia, 60 A.D. Time tr...
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Meet Me in Nuthatch
Jacqueline T LynchA whimsical, poignant tale about a practical joketurned publicity stunt that fires up the small town of Nuthatch, Massachusetts, in a desperate attempt to attract tourists.Christma...
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Cadmium Yellow, Blood Red
Jacqueline T LynchA museum heist, a missing child, a murder, a recent excon and an even more recent widow. How many times do we have to pay for our mistakes before life sends us a reprieve?Jul...
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Speak Out Before You Die
Jacqueline T LynchGuests arrive to attend a wedding in a snowbound mansion on New Year's Eve. A discovered note warns of danger at midnight. Juliet Van Allen's wealthy widowed father is p...
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Movies in Our Time - Hollywood Mirrors and Mimics the Twentieth Century
Jacqueline T LynchHollywood films from the 1930s through the 1950s reflected their eraand sometimes created it. Today, classic films are the moving image scrapbooks of collective memory, but w...
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Interfacing
Jacqueline T LynchSusan, saved by her Heimlich maneuverperforming dog from death by choking, must remain silent until her infected throat heals. Shutting up has never been easy for her. Her job as a...
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Double V Mysteries Vol. 1-3
Jacqueline T LynchThe Double V Mysteries series begins in the spring of 1949 in Hartford, Connecticut, when a recent excon finds his fortunes, or misfortunes, linked with a recent widow whose husban...
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A Swell Time
Jacqueline T LynchShort story: 3,100 words, humor. A film director puts a new spin on his classic 1944 movie in a controversial interview. The cynical present stomps on the innocence of ...
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Constancy
Jacqueline T LynchConstance takes on the guardianship of a friend’s young daughter, and her own elderly grandmother, and a threestory apartment house. Emotional interruptions by her sometimes boyfri...
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Murder at the Summer Theater
Jacqueline T LynchRehearsals grow tense at a summer theater on the Connecticut shore. The lead actress goes missing – or was she murdered?Juliet Van Allen and Elmer Vartanian, the "Double V" d...
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Christmas in Classic Films
Jacqueline T LynchChristmas turns everyone who celebrates it into a classic film fanat least for that special season.The average person, unlike devoted classic film fans, may not recognize images of...
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The Little Engine That Killed
Jacqueline LynchThe week before Christmas 1951, Juliet and Elmer are hired by a retired factory owner to find the missing money his soninlaw stole sixteen years ago. The culprit is being released ...
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Beside the Still Waters
Jacqueline T LynchFour towns…dismantled as an entire valley is prepared to be flooded. The past is being wiped clean, the present threatens, the future belongs to the fearless.Three generations weav...
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A Tragic Toast to Christmas -The Infamous Wood Alcohol Deaths of 1919 in Chicopee, Massachusetts
Jacqueline T LynchMore than 100 people died of a companionable drink in several towns and cities in New England on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day 1919, nearly half of them in the city of Chicopee, ...
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Hollywood Fights Fascism
Jacqueline T LynchPast is prologue. Our greatest gift from the Greatest Generation was freedom from fascism...until now. Relive, and celebrate, how evil was faced, discussed, dramatized....
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Comedy and Tragedy on the Mountain
Jacqueline T LynchComedy and Tragedy on the Mountain covers seventy years of live theatre on Mt. Tom, Holyoke, Massachusetts, from vaudeville, operetta, WPAsponsored shows in the Great Depression, a...
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Whitewash in the Berkshires
Jacqueline T LynchAn incident from Juliet's past comes back to haunt her. A priceless work of art brings her to a secret bunker. An unidentified corpse is found in the river. As if...
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Dismount and Murder
Jacqueline T LynchThe owner of a wealthy estate is found dead of a heart attack after his morning horseback ride. But his son suspects murder. Is it his young stepmother? His jealo...
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The Current Rate of Exchange
Jacqueline T LynchRose, a tall, bumbling American woman travels to New Zealand to reestablish ties with her late mother’s family and begins the adventure of her life. If she can survive it.Armed wit...
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The Current Rate of Exchange
Jacqueline T LynchRose, a tall, bumbling American woman travels to New Zealand to reestablish ties with her late mother's family and begins the adventure of her life. If she can survive it.Arm...