This is a list of incidents, racists, or hate groups that have committed violent attacks targeting people because they were black or African American (particularly sub-Saharan African descent). This group also includes victims of such violence, including white people who were attacked for trying to help black people win equal rights in the civil rights movement. It is NOT for incidents of violence in which the victims just happened to be Black or African American coincidentally.
Subcategories
This category has the following 7 subcategories, out of 7 total.
Pages in category "Racially motivated violence against African Americans"
The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 338 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
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A
- A man was lynched yesterday flag
- Lynching of Aaron and Anthony (Arkansas, 1856)
- Judge Edward Aaron
- African dodger
- Lynching of Fred Alexander
- Louis Allen
- Anacostia Pool riot
- Lynching of Dan Anderson
- Murder of James Craig Anderson
- Lynching of William Andrews
- New York anti-abolitionist riots (1834)
- Murder of Ahmaud Arbery
- Lynching of Henry Argo
- Lynching of George Armwood
- Lynching of Irving and Herman Arthur
- Mark Asay
- Lynching of Charles Atkins
- 1906 Atlanta race massacre
B
- Lynching of Frazier B. Baker and Julia Baker
- Lynching of William Baker
- Banished (film)
- Barack Obama assassination plot in Denver
- Barack Obama assassination plot in Tennessee
- Security incidents involving Barack Obama
- Richard Baumhammers
- Beaumont race riot of 1943
- Lynching of Will Bell
- Black Legion (political movement)
- Black Lives Matter Memorial Fence
- Lynching of Bayner Blackwell
- Blyew v. United States
- Bogalusa sawmill killings
- Bombingham
- Bonanza, Arkansas
- Lynching of Keith Bowen
- Lynching of Thomas Bradshaw
- Murder of Willie Brewster
- Johnny Bright incident
- Brooks County race war
- Lynching of Allen Brooks
- Lynching of Jake Brooks
- Murder of Larnell Bruce
- 2022 Buffalo shooting
- Jon Burge
- Lynching of William Burns
- Lynching of Andrew Richards
- Murder of James Byrd Jr.
- Lynching of William Byrd
- Ricky Byrdsong
C
- Lynching of Manuel Cabeza
- Camilla massacre
- Lynching of John Carter
- Sam Carter (lynching victim)
- Octavius Catto
- Murder of Timothy Caughman
- Murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner
- Charleston church shooting
- Lynching of Cordie Cheek
- Lynching of Henry Choate
- Joseph Christopher
- Cicero race riot of 1951
- Cincinnati riots of 1829
- Cincinnati riots of 1836
- Cincinnati riots of 1841
- The Clansman: A Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan
- James Clark (lynching victim)
- Lynching of Joe Coe
- Nat King Cole
- Colfax massacre
- Lynching of Robert Collins
- Columbia race riot of 1946
- Cotton pickers' strike of 1891
- Gus Courts
- Battle of the Crater
- Robert Crosky (lynching victim)
- Cross burning
- Lynching of Ballie Crutchfield
D
- Arthur Dade
- Vernon Dahmer
- Lynching of Eugene Daniel
- Lige Daniels
- Danville race riot
- Lynching of Christopher Davis
- Lynching of Jake Davis
- Byron De La Beckwith
- Deacons for Defense and Justice
- Lynching of Norris Dendy
- Detroit race riot of 1863
- Murder of Oumar Dia
- Lynching of Michael Donald
- Dublin, Georgia riot
- Roman Ducksworth Jr.
- Duluth lynchings
E
F
G
H
- Hamburg massacre
- Hard Scrabble and Snow Town
- Levi Harrington
- Assault of DeAndre Harris
- Lynching of John Harrison
- John Hartfield
- Lynching of James Harvey and Joe Jordan
- Murder of Yusef Hawkins
- Lynching of Elwood Higginbotham
- David Mark Hill
- History of Marshall, Texas
- Daniel Holtzclaw
- Lynching of Sam Hose
- Howard Beach racial attack
- Lynching of Willie James Howard
- Lynching of George Hughes
- Hurtsboro race riot
J
- A.C. Jackson
- Murder of Jimmie Lee Jackson
- 2023 Jacksonville shooting
- 2018 Jeffersontown shooting
- Murder of Carol Jenkins
- Lynching of Willie Lee Jenkins
- Johnson–Jeffries riots
- Lynching of Ed Johnson
- Death of Henry Lee Johnson
- Jack Johnson (boxer)
- Lynching of King Johnson
- Lynching of William Johnson
- John Cecil Jones
- Laurence C. Jones
- Lynching of Will Jones
- Lynching of Arthur Jordan
K
L
- George W. Lee
- Robert Lewis (lynching victim)
- List of lynchings in Texas in 1922
- Will Lockett
- Lockheed Martin shooting
- Lombard Street riot
- Neal Long
- Lynching of Henry Lowry
- Lynching in Florence County, South Carolina
- Lynching in Kirvin, Texas
- Lynching in Lee County, Georgia
- Lynching in the United States
- Lynching of women in the United States
- Lynching postcard
- Lynchings in Elmore County, Alabama
- Lynchings in Harris County, Georgia
- Lynchings in Madison, Georgia