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New Madrid County, Missouri. The "Hanging Tree." Several Negroes have been hanged on this tree | Library of Congress
![Hanging deaths of two black men in California get closer scrutiny after public outcry | National Post Hanging deaths of two black men in California get closer scrutiny after public outcry | National Post](https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/hangings-1.png?quality=90&strip=all&w=288&h=216&sig=pihbmgEdcLCAR1FJxyJWmg)
Hanging deaths of two black men in California get closer scrutiny after public outcry | National Post
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Slavery, Lynching, and the Era of Public Hangings (1619-1910) - Racist Roots: Origins of North Carolina's Death Penalty
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Grisly Hanging Deaths of Three Black Men in Two Weeks Hark Back to Terror of Lynchings Past - The San Diego Voice & Viewpoint
Photograph of the lynched bodies of four men | National Museum of African American History and Culture
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File:Photo taken about August 1, 1908 at Russellville, Logan County, Kentucky- Four black men hung at the same tree (NBY 4378) (cropped).jpg - Wikimedia Commons
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A university gift shop hung historical black figures from tree-like displays. Black students said it looked like a lynching | CNN
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