Category
page 1White American lynching victims
Joseph Smith
founder of the Latter Day Saint movement and prophet (1805–1844)
John Taylor
3rd President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (1808–1887)
Leo Frank
American factory superintendent and lynching victim (1884–1915)
Viola Liuzzo
American activist and murder victim (1925–1965)
Elijah Parish Lovejoy
American minister, journalist, and abolitionist (1802–1837)

Hyrum Smith
American Mormon leader
Andrew Goodman
American civil rights activist (1943-1964)
Henry Plummer
American sheriff (1832–1864)
Willard Richards
American Mormon leader (1804–1854)
March 14, 1891 lynchings
murder of eleven Italians imprisoned for their alleged role in the assassination of the local police chief
James Reeb
American activist and minister (1927–1965)
Michael Schwerner
American civil rights activist (1939–1964)
Wesley Everest
U.S. Army World War I veteran and trade unionist lynched during the Centralia Massacre, Armistice Day 1919 (1890–1919)

Mary Webster
American accused of witchcraft
Frank Little
American labor leader

Henry Newton Brown
American bank robber (1857–1884)
Big Nose George
The late 19th century cattle rustler and highwayman in the American Wild West
Jim Miller
American outlaw, born 1861
Reno Gang
group of criminals that operated in the Midwestern United States during and just after the American Civil War