Lynching: Timeline

1736   Edinburgh crowd drags John Porteous out of his cell in Tolbooth prison and lynches Lynching

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 him

1891   In New Orleans, lynch mob Lynching

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 storms the Old Parish Prison and lynches eleven Italians arrested but found innocent for the murder of Police Chief David Hennessey.

1915   Jew Jew

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ish American Leo Frank is lynched Lynching

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 for the alleged murder of a 13-year-old girl in Atlanta, Georgia Atlanta, Georgia

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