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Originally Posted by Turner2099
Here are the results from Claude.AI:
The answer depends on how you define "last," but here are the key milestones:
**Last officially recorded lynching (1981):** Michael Donald, a 19-year-old African American, was lynched by the Ku Klux Klan in Mobile, Alabama, on March 21, 1981. He is considered one of the last reported lynchings in the United States. KKK members beat and killed Donald and hung his body from a tree. One perpetrator, Henry Hays, was executed by electric chair in 1997 — the first execution in Alabama since 1913 for a white-on-black crime.
**Last mass lynching (1946):** The Moore's Ford Bridge lynching on July 25, 1946, in Walton County, Georgia, is widely recognized as the last documented mass lynching in the United States. George Dorsey — a World War II veteran — and his wife Mae, along with Roger and Dorothy Malcolm, were traveling near the Apalachee River when they were attacked. George Dorsey and Roger Malcolm were dragged from the car, tied to a tree, and shot. Dorothy Malcolm, who was seven months pregnant, and Mae Dorsey were also killed. No one was ever convicted.
**An ongoing concern:** Some researchers and civil rights advocates argue that racially motivated extrajudicial killings never truly stopped. Jill Collen Jefferson, a lawyer and civil rights investigator, has noted that "lynchings never stopped in the United States" — perpetrators simply stopped publicizing them — and she has compiled records of Black people found hanging or mutilated across the country in recent decades.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...ppi-lynchings/ |
I was wrong. I asked about the last know lynching in the US, not Ohio.
Claude verified that:
"According to America's Black Holocaust Museum, the last recorded lynching in Ohio occurred on June 27, 1911, in ClevelOhio?
But there is also:
"The last documented lynching in Ohio occurred in 1932, making it more recent than many records suggest. In the spring of 1932, Luke Murray — a 24-year-old Black man from Georgia working as a chauffeur — was taken from a jail by a mob of at least 14 white men, tortured, and lynched. His body was found three days later floating in the Ohio River near Ironton, showing signs of beating, a broken neck, and rope marks on his throat."
I am also going with The View not being news. It's like watching The Five on Fox.
https://julianjohnsonlaw.com/luke-mu...s-never-there/
