History A-Level
Lynching
What Lynching means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Lynching
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
Killing, often without trial, used as a tool of racial control to enforce white supremacy.
Topics that use Lynching
- Paper 3, Option 39.1: Civil rights and race relations in the USA, 1850–2009 - 1 ‘Free at last’, 1865–77 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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