North Dakotas fraught history of lynching ranged from mocking ads to the front page of The New York Times

FARGO — Whatever you call it — “a lynch mob,” “mob rule” or “vigilante justice” — the gathering of loud, angry, pitchfork-wielding people taking the law into their own hands was a significant and worrisome trend in the United States from the late 1800s to the early 1960s. According to…Read More