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For the purposes of this archive, "lynching" is defined as the extralegal murder of an individual in an act of mob violence that meets the criteria that the NAACP established:

• there must be evidence a person was killed, i.e., a body;
• the person must have met his/her death illegally;
• the person must have been killed by a group of people (i.e., three or more people);
• the group must have acted under the pretext of serving justice, race, or tradition.

For more information on this definition, please refer to NAACP's History of Lynching in America.