1880-1889, Dinwiddie |
Previous LynchingNext Lynching Victim ID: VA1888061601 Victim Name: William Stokes Race: Black Sex: Male Age: 25-27 Job: Farmer Method of Death: Shot Accusation: Attempted rape of a colored woman Date: 1888-06-16 County Name: Dinwiddie Mob Composition: Unknown men...
News & Events |
January 31, 2024. Dr. Gianluca De Fazio recently released a new digital project: Memorializing Racial Terror: Lynching Markers in the United States. This project catalogs and maps all the historical markers commemorating victims of lynching in the United States, thus...
News & Events |
January 30, 2024. Archeologist and historian Kathy Liston examines the life and death of Joseph Holmes in her essay ‘‘Lynching a Legislator: The Joseph R. Holmes Story.‘ Born into slavery, Joe Holmes was elected at the Virginia Constitutional Convention of...
Charlotte, Essay |
By KATHY LISTON Following the defeat of the Confederacy, the Reconstruction era (1865-1877) saw the power structure across the South upended. With growing resentment, whites saw Black men being elected or appointed to positions of authority. In his memoir, Mississippi...
News & Events |
October 17, 2023. In the past few months, the Racial Terror website underwent a thorough revision to update its content and expand the historical information we have about lynching in Virginia. In particular, all of the entries about each lynching victims have been...
