lynch law

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There were other charges of love for “sundown towns,” where blacks dared not enter after the sun set during the Jim Crow “lynch law” era.

From Washington Times

"They can deal with crime by chain-gang and lynch law, or at least they think they can, but the South can conceive neither machinery nor place for the educated, self-reliant, self-assertive black man," he wrote.

From Salon

“Police officers are carrying out lynch law right on the streets of American cities.”

From New York Times

This is the racial logic of lynch law, slavery and Jim Crow.

From Salon

His warning against “lynch law” administered by a jury or “by a mob intent on death” was vindicated when Frank was, in fact, lynched by an anti-Semitic mob.

From Washington Post