Ĭharles Lynch was a Virginia Quaker, : 23 ff planter, and Patriot who headed a county court in Virginia which imprisoned Loyalists during the American revolutionary war, occasionally imprisoning them for up to a year. In 1782, Charles Lynch wrote that his assistant had administered Lynch's law to Tories "for Dealing with the negroes &c". There is no evidence that death was imposed as a punishment by either of the two men. Charles Lynch is more likely to have coined the phrase, as he was known to have used the term in 1782, while William Lynch is not known to have used the term until much later. Two Americans during this era are generally credited for coining the phrase: Charles Lynch (1736–1796) and William Lynch (1742–1820), both of whom lived in Virginia in the 1780s. The verb comes from the phrase Lynch Law, a term for a punishment without trial. The origins of the word lynch are obscure, but it likely originated during the American Revolution.
2.1 Anti-lynching legislation and the Civil Rights Movement.
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