I paled and decided this was the end for me, but instead of a lynching I got a round of applause at the end.
Leaving things to the Spirit can turn a property dispute into a lynching.
The lynching is a composite of numerous lynchings and violence against Negroes in the area in those years and years to follow.
Another one of her signature songs, “Strange Fruit,” about lynching, was a direct challenge to the racial order of the day.
She has joked about lynching and then claimed to be a victim.
For one, I'll rather enjoy seeing a Southern lynching bunch.
There was going to be no lynching at Tascosa if he could help it.
lynching was one of the reasons most often given as a cause of the migration.
lynching, in the sense that we know it to-day, was almost unknown.
He calls attention to such injustices as miscegenation, lynching, unfairness of the courts, and discrimination in traveling.
1835, from earlier Lynch law (1811), likely named after William Lynch (1742-1820) of Pittsylvania, Virginia, who c.1780 led a vigilance committee to keep order there during the Revolution. Other sources trace the name to Charles Lynch (1736-1796) a Virginia magistrate who fined and imprisoned Tories in his district c.1782, but the connection to him is less likely. Originally any sort of summary justice, especially by flogging; narrowing of focus to "extralegal execution by hanging" is 20c. Lynch mob is attested from 1838. The surname is perhaps from Irish Loingseach "sailor." Cf. earlier Lydford law, from a place in Dartmoor, England, "where was held a Stannaries Court of summary jurisdiction" [Weekley], hence:
Lydford law: is to hang men first, and indite them afterwards. [Thomas Blount, "Glossographia," 1656]Related: Lynched; lynching.