What is Lynching?
'''Lynching''' is the [[Capital punishment|execution]] of a person or persons, by the people of an area without the use of a [[court]] [[trial]]. Often the people lynched have been [[Capital punishment#Hanging|hanged]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.randolphcomuseum.org/cheverie.htm |title=1901 lynching |access-date=2019-05-12 |archive-date=2016-06-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160623230506/http://www.randolphcomuseum.org/cheverie.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> Other forms of lynching include being dragged to death behind a car, burning and use of a gun. What makes the execution a lynching is the nature of it being done without a court trial by people who believe the accused is guilty of a crime. Lynchings have been used in the southern states of the [[United States of America]] against [[African American]]s during the time of slavery but more commonly after the [[abolition of slavery]] during the time of [[Civil rights in the United States of America|civil rights activism]] and the times of the various [[Ku Klux Klan]]s. Lynching continues to be a problem to this day, and is not just limited to southern states.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.channel3000.com/a-community-seeks-answers-after-a-young-black-man-is-found-hanging-from-a-tree-in-los-angeles-county/|title=A community seeks answers after a young black man is found hanging from a tree in Los Angeles County|date=2020-06-13|website=Channel3000.com|language=en-US|access-date=2020-06-13}}</ref> Lynching is murder, and many times the people who do it are never punished. One horrific example of Lynching is [[Lynching of Jesse Washington]]. ==Lynching in the United States== {{Main|Lynching in the United States}} [[United States]] lynchings rose in number after the [[American Civil War]] in the early-to-mid 1860s. Most lynchings went down by the 1950s. Most lynchings were of [[African American people|African American]] men in the [[Southern United States|South]]. But women were also lynched. Also, white lynchings of blacks happened in the [[Mid