From Rebecca Johnson's pen:
The occurrence of lynchings, of African American men and women, is well grounded in United States history. Lynchings are gruesome public executions, which were originally sanctioned by state and local governmental officials, and enjoyed by massive crowds of white citizens, in a number of states, throughout the United States. It is (not was) a rather disturbing practice, which was commenced during the colonial American era, and unfortunately, continues to the present. The fact that the taste for these blood-curling demonstrations of inhuman cruelty still exists, is supported by the fact that efforts to outlaw lynchings have been resisted for over a century, even to the present time and current decade. There are several sources of well-researched materials, which offer a complete perspective on our country's unfathomable taste for watching black men and women being executed, whether by hanging, or by burning, and/or other similarly barbaric and disgusting means. Please see the