User:Enwebb/Lynching in Ohio

Depending on the definition of "lynching" used, between 26 &mdash; 28 people were lynched in Ohio, including both Black and White victims. The Tuskegee Institute estimated 10 Whites and 16 Blacks were lynched between 1882 and 1968. The Equal Justice Initiative lists 15 instances of racial terror lynchings in Ohio from 1877 to 1950.

Though most common in the American South, terror lynchings occurred in many other states. Ohio is eighth in the number of racial terror lynchings outside the South, and twentieth overall including the South.

Ohioan Benjamin Harrison in May of 1892 was the first US president to call for anti-lynching legislation. Ohio legislators and activists, including Harry Clay Smith and Albion W. Tourgee, responded with the Smith Act, which was "intended to discourage all forms of mob violence by allowing victims or their families to obtain up to $5000 in financial compensation from the county where the crime occurred." It was the strongest anti-lynching in the United States at the time. The Smith Act became a model for similar legislation enacted in other states.

List of lynching victims

 * Bill Terry (1856), Manchester User:Enwebb/Lynching of Bill Terry According to Lynching and Mob violence in Ohio, "Ohio's first generally recognized lynching."
 * Jeff Davis (1873), Tuscarawas County
 * G. W. Ullery (G. W. Ulrey), Urbana
 * Sim Garnett (Simon Garnett) (1877), Oxford
 * William Taylor (1878), Sandusky
 * Christopher C. Davis (1881), Athens
 * Frank Fisher (1882), Galion
 * Turner Graham (1885), Osgood
 * Mrs. Turner Graham (1885), Osgood
 * Henry Howard (1885) Coshocton
 * William Boles, April 10 1891 Kenton, Hardin Co, accused of murder
 * Henry Corbin (1892), Oxford Jan 14 Butler Co, accused of murder
 * James Lytle Feb 30 1892 Findlay, Hancock Co, accused of murdering his wife
 * Unknown April 1 1892 Millersburg, Holmes Co, unknown cause
 * Roscoe Parker (1894), West Union, Adams Co, Jan 12, accused of murder
 * Seymour Neville (Seymour Newlin) (1894), Rushsylvania, Logan Co, April 15, accused of rape
 * Nelson Weatheroff, May 31 1895, Logan, Hocking Co, accused of attempted rape
 * Noah Anderson (1895), New Richmond, Clermont Co, accused of murder
 * Charles Mitchell (Click Mitchell) (1897), Urbana, June 4, Champaign Co, accused of rape
 * Richard Dixon (1904), Springfield, Mar 7, Clark Co, accused of murder
 * Unknown (1911), Cleveland, June 27, Cuyahoga Co, accused of murder
 * Luke Murray (1932), Ironton