| This result, unforeseen and unanticipated, led to the day's stonings and near lynchings of Chinese laundrymen unconnected to the alleged crimes. |
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| But federal investigations into lynchings could only concentrate on trying to prove that the lynchers had violated their victims' civil rights. |
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| Some human rights groups have even reported the emergence of a parallel justice system exemplified by lynchings and attacks on police barracks. |
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| The lynching is a composite of numerous lynchings and violence against Negroes in the area in those years and years to follow. |
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| Given white Louisianians' frequent use of beatings, whippings, and lynchings, it should not be surprising that African Americans also resorted to aggressive tactics. |
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| The crowd gathering round the town courthouse weren't the kind of white trash everyone blamed for the lynchings that had taken place recently in other parts of Oklahoma. |
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| Human-rights groups lack the resources to investigate or even record more than a handful of lynchings. |
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| But it's not quite on a par with the lynchings, floggings and threatened executions of Pakistan. |
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| Corruption and mistreatment of prisoners are cited, as are reports of mob violence, lynchings and the killing of suspected witches. |
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| During almost fifty years in Africa, I have witnessed bloodcurdling lynchings and been unable to help. |
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| The study tracked lynchings over time, analysed where they occurred, against whom they were committed and their motivations. |
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| In the 100 years following the civil war, there were some 4,000 illegal lynchings and 4,000 technically legal lynchings. |
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| Fear of reprisals such as unjust incarcerations and lynchings deterred upward mobility further. |
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| With regard to the Special Rapporteur's comments on the issue of vigilante justice, that lynchings were a reaction to atrocities perpetrated by hoodlums when they broke into homes. |
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| They left due to lynchings and racial violence, and for better opportunities. |
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| Over the past six months, MINUSTAH has received reports of 60 people having been killed by lynching and of 28 people having been seriously injured or maimed as a result of attempted lynchings. |
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| It belongs to the time of lynchings, of extreme political violence against blacks in the US, as well as to the time of European savageries in Africa. |
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| Aided by his fair skin, he made on-the-spot investigations of lynchings and race riots and conducted a vigorous, sustained drive for enactment of a federal antilynching law. |
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| Der Stürmer, lynchings, rapes, internment camps. |
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| The practice of lynching — there were more than a hundred and fifty lynchings in South Carolina between 1877 and 1950 — facilitated the disenfranchisement of blacks and the retention of political power in white hands. |
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| On Blood On The Leaves, Kanye sampled Nina Simone's version of Billie Holiday's Strange Fruit, a darkly poetic song about African-American lynchings, and used it to rap about the VIP area at a basketball game. |
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| One of the main areas in which training is provided for the population and local authorities is negotiation or conflict mediation, as an effective mechanism for preventing lynchings. |
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| These measures have helped to reduce the number of lynchings from 61 cases in 2005 to 22 in 2006, and it is hoped that this year the figure will be further reduced. |
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| That in Serbia, as a civilized country, we stop public lynchings through which a person's pride, integrity and honor are destroyed and through which the public is prepared for someone's verdict or even their death. |
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| At NYU, she became passionate about preventing lynchings, desegregating the armed forces, and reforming the criminal justice system. |
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| Belief in the supernatural is strong in all parts of India, and lynchings for witchcraft are reported in the press from time to time. |
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