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Dyer Lynching of 1835

St. Louis, Missouri, MO · On map

Dyer Lynching of 1835
Dyer Lynching of 1835

The first recorded lynching of an African American occurred in St. Louis in 1835, when a white mob killed a Black man named Dyer[9]. This event marked the beginning of systematic lynching as a tool of racial terror against Black Americans[9]. It set a precedent for future extrajudicial killings of Black people.

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