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The last documented lynching in Ohio occurred in 1911, with multiple sources confirming this event.
and memorial projects report the last documented lynching occurred in 1911, most specifically on June 27, 1911 and is associated with . That statement sits within a complex and contested archival reco...
told that, as a child in , her mother would pull her away from scenes of people “hanging from a tree,” and said the site now has a memorial (Grier’s on-air account) . Public records and multiple conte...
The most commonly cited "" in is June 27, 1911 — a mob killing in documented by the and repeated across multiple fact-checks and reporting . Scholarly work complicates that simple endpoint by identify...
Research into between 1912 and 1916, using the supplied reporting, shows that primary contemporary newspaper and court-record documentation for that narrow window is sparse in these sources: the clear...
Historians reconcile divergent lynching counts through a mix of definitional rigor, triangulation of archival sources, and collaborative databases that flag inconclusive cases; these methods explain w...
’s history of lynching did not end neatly in 1911; scholars note a cluster of contested incidents through 1916 and disagreement over what counts as a “lynching” complicates the record . Two widely dis...