The lynching of women in the United States refers to the extrajudicial killing of women between the 1830s and the 1960s. While the majority of lynching victims were African-American men and boys, the majority of female lynching victims were African-American women and girls. The lynching of Black women has sometimes been understudied by academics and overlooked by the general public. The role of white women as perpetrators of lynching is also understudied.[1] Between 1865 and 1965, of around 5,000 Black lynching victims, between 120 and 200 Black women and girls were lynched, or around 3% to 4% of all victims.[2] A small number of women lynching victims were white, some of whom were lynched for associating with African Americans. Other women lynching victims were Indigenous, Latina, or Asian. While women lynching victims were often "successfully demonized", the lynching of white women was more likely to cause "shock, horror, and condemnation" from the general public.[3]

History

Due to the invisibility of Black women lynching victims, inaccuracies in historical scholarship, and cases of unconfirmed lynchings, compiling statistics regarding Black women lynchings presents challenges for researchers and historians. There also remains scholarly debate as to what constitutes lynching. In addition to extrajudicial killings of Black women and girls, many were also victims of legal executions and riots that targeted Black Americans regardless of sex.[4]

List of women lynching victims

Black women

Latina women

White women

See also

Further reading

  • Simien, Evelyn M. Gender and Lynching: The Politics of Memory, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

References

  1. ↑ "Considering History: The Role of Women in the Lynching Epidemic". The Saturday Evening Post. Retrieved 2023-12-06.
  2. ↑ "'Of These, One was a Woman': The Lynching of African American Women, 1885-1946". Cornell University. Retrieved 2023-12-05.
  3. ↑ "LYNCHING BEYOND DIXIE: AMERICAN MOB VIOLENCE OUTSIDE THE SOUTH". Rutgers. Retrieved 2023-12-06.
  4. ↑ "An Analytical History of Black Female Lynchings In The United States, 1838-1969". Qualitative Criminology. Retrieved 2023-12-06.
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