What is Lynching in the United States?
[[File:The Lynching of Roosevelt Townes and Robert McDaniels.jpg|thumb|[[Lynching of Roosevelt Townes and Robert McDaniels|Roosevelt Townes and Robert McDaniels]] were lynched in 1937, after accusations that they had [[killed]] a white shopkeeper. McDaniels was shot, and Townes was burned alive. Beforehand, both were [[Torture|tortured]]. Pictures such as this one made it to [[Time (magazine)|Time Magazine]], [[Life (magazine)|Life Magazine]], and national newspapers. ]] [[Lynching]] is a form of [[murder]]. It is normally by [[hanging]]. Lynching is often by a group of people as a form of [[punishment]]. In the [[United States]], lynchings happened more often after the [[American Civil War]] in the early-to-mid 1860s.<ref>[https://civilwartalk.com/threads/a-post-civil-war-legacy-lynching-warning-graphic-accounts-and-pictures.118468/ Civil War Legacy Lynchings accounts and pictures]</ref> Although the number of lynchings went down in the 1920s, they have continued into the 21st century.<ref>{{Cite news|last=DeNeen L. Brown|date=2021-08-08|title='Lynchings in Mississippi never stopped'|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/08/08/modern-day-mississippi-lynchings/|newspaper=The Washington Post}}</ref> Most, but not all, lynchings were of [[African American people|African American]] men in the [[Southern United States|South]]. Ninety-two women were lynched in the United States between 1882 and 1927. The lynchings of black people by white people happened in the [[Midwestern United States|Midwest]] and [[Border states (American Civil War)|border states]]. There were also lynchings of [[Native American]]s, [[Hispanic]]s and [[Asian American]]s in the [[Western United States|West]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://www.dukeupress.edu/Lynching-in-the-West|title=Lynching in the West|publisher=The Duke University Press|access-date=October 19, 2018|archive-date=June 12, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612162103/https://www.dukeupress.edu/Lynching-in-the-West/|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[White people]] w