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Lyncher

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Lynch  (lnch), John Known as "Jack." 1917-1999.
Irish political leader who served as prime minister of Ireland (1966-1973 and 1977-1979).
lynch  (lnch)
tr.v. lynched, lynch·ing, lynch·es
To punish (a person) without legal process or authority, especially by hanging, for a perceived offense or as an act of bigotry.
[Short for lynch law.]
lyncher n.
lynching n.


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``Actually, that was how we planned it,'' said ``head'' lyncher Paul DaSwitch.
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Meanwhile, a Mississippi Mother Burns Bacon" and "The Last Quatrain of the Ballad of Emmett Till"; the would-be lynchers during the 1957 Arkansas school integration in "The Chicago Defender Sends a Man to Little Rock"; and a lynch mob during neighborhood integration in "The Ballad of Rudolph Reed" (Blacks 333-39, 340, 346-48, 376-78).
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The highly publicized phase of the mass movement for civil rights began in 1955, the year lynchers murdered 14-year-old Emmett Till in Mississippi; the year Rosa Parks refused to sit where black people were supposed to sit on an Alabama city bus.
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