The vast majority of victims were African Americans. Lynching usually occurred in the South, due to strong prejudice and still prevailing pressures of the post Civil-War Southern Reconstruction. African American became beast of burden to many Caucasian individuals. Whatever tribulation a town had (usually murder) the finger was generally pointed to someone of different ethnicity, even if that person had never committed a crime, for example, Laura Nelson. Laura’s only crime was trying to save her son, L.W. The accused would be placed under arrest and while awaiting their trails, they would be ripped from their cells by an

African American took most of the brunt of these “witch hunts” but they were not the only ones to hang from a noose. In Tampa Florida Castenego Ficarrota and Angelo Albano were two Italian immigrants who worked in a factory. This particular factory was the economic strength of Tampa at the time. The two immigrants were accused of union sympathy (it was considered by the vast majority that Labor Unions would destroy the economy of a town) and of murdering a bookkeeper. The process of being arrested and seized by a lynch mob is the same.

Many states participated in the gruesome act of lynching, but Georgia seemed to have the most. This isn’t very surprising because Georgia was the last state to agree to the terms of Reconstruction and were not very accepting of Freedmen. But Montonya was more likely to lynch a white person than any other state. Oklahoma lynched four, all of which African American. John Lee (his corpse was burnt afterwards and the term Coon Cooking was coined soon after), Bennie Simmons, Laura Nelson and her son.

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