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[[File:~~Rubin Stacy~~.jpg|thumb|right|~~Rubin Stacy, a homeless African-American man,~~ was lynched ~~by a group of people in Fort Lauderdale~~, ~~Florida in 1935~~.]]{{Quote|We of the South have never recognized the right of the negro to govern white men, and we never will. We have never believed him to be the equal of the white man, and we will not submit to his gratifying his lust on our wives and daughters without lynching him.|[[Benjamin Tillman]], a notorious white supremacist, attempts to justify lynching of African-Americans.}}

[[File:Lynching-1889.jpg|thumb|right|George Meadows was lynched at Pratt Mines in Jefferson County, Alabama on January 15, 1889.]]{{Quote|We of the South have never recognized the right of the negro to govern white men, and we never will. We have never believed him to be the equal of the white man, and we will not submit to his gratifying his lust on our wives and daughters without lynching him.|[[Benjamin Tillman]], a notorious white supremacist, attempts to justify lynching of African-Americans.}}

'''Lynching''' is a form of [[murder]] where a group of organized people kill one or a few people. The [[Ku Klux Klan]] is infamous for succeeding in perpetrating over 500 lynches in America. An infamous example in the Bible was the lynching of Stephen by many Jews.

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-[[File:Rubin Stacy.jpg|thumb|right|Rubin Stacy, a homeless African-American man, was lynched by a group of people in Fort Lauderdale, Florida in 1935.]]{{Quote|We of the South have never recognized the right of the negro to govern white men, and we never will. We have never believed him to be the equal of the white man, and we will not submit to his gratifying his lust on our wives and daughters without lynching him.|[[Benjamin Tillman]], a notorious white supremacist, attempts to justify lynching of African-Americans.}}
+[[File:Lynching-1889.jpg|thumb|right|George Meadows was lynched at Pratt Mines in Jefferson County, Alabama on January 15, 1889.]]{{Quote|We of the South have never recognized the right of the negro to govern white men, and we never will. We have never believed him to be the equal of the white man, and we will not submit to his gratifying his lust on our wives and daughters without lynching him.|[[Benjamin Tillman]], a notorious white supremacist, attempts to justify lynching of African-Americans.}}
 '''Lynching''' is a form of [[murder]] where a group of organized people kill one or a few people. The [[Ku Klux Klan]] is infamous for succeeding in perpetrating over 500 lynches in America. An infamous example in the Bible was the lynching of Stephen by many Jews.