lynched
Executed without trial
Lynched is the past tense of lynch, meaning to kill someone by mob action without legal authority—historically by hanging.
The term is most associated with the extrajudicial murder of Black Americans, particularly in the South from Reconstruction through the mid-20th century: Between 1877 and 1950, thousands of Black men were lynched.
The word sometimes extends to any mob killing or vigilante execution.
Disorderly, aggressive crowd
- vigilanteExtralegal justice-seeker
- hangingExecution by noose
- nooseLoop that constricts
- treeWoody perennial plant
extrajudicial · crowd · rope · murder · posse · lawless · summary · execution
Racial separation laws
- segregationForced separation by group
- terrorismIntimidation through targeted violence
- NAACPCivil rights advocacy organization
- civil rightsGuaranteed individual legal protections
Emmett Till · memorial · Tuskegee · antilynching · Ida B. Wells · racism · hatred · bigotry
mob
Disorderly, aggressive crowd
tree · extrajudicial · crowd · rope · murder · posse · lawless · summary · execution · violence
Jim Crow
Racial separation laws
- segregationForced separation by group
- terrorismIntimidation through targeted violence
- NAACPCivil rights advocacy organization
Emmett Till · civil rights · memorial · Tuskegee · antilynching · Ida B. Wells · racism · hatred · bigotry · persecution
destroyed
Made to cease existing
condemned · crucified · scapegoated · canceled · targeted · smeared · reputation · career · public · media
- wrongedabused, mistreated, victimized, exploited, oppressed
- killedkilled, murdered, slain, assassinated, executed
- lynch mobsCrowds enacting illegal executions
- David Lynch
- Jane Lynch
- lynch pinCritical securing component
- Merrill LynchMajor American brokerage
- lynch lawExtrajudicial execution by mob