Thousands of African Americans were victims of racial terror lynchings in the United States between 1865 and 1950. After the Civil War, counterrevolutionary terror and violence swept much of the former Confederate states, imposing racial subjugation, traumatizing the Black community, and forcing the exodus of millions from the South, but hundreds of lynchings also took place outside the South. Black men, women, and children were lynched for violating social customs, resisting mistreatment, or for alleged crimes even when little evidence tied them to any offense, while white people accused of the same acts were rarely subjected to the same fate. Lynching was often carried out with impunity as whole communities participated in ritualistic killings, with crowds in the thousands gathering to witness planned lynchings that often featured torture, dismemberment, and the selling of body parts. In Coos Bay, Oregon, then called Marshfield, Alonzo Tucker was lynched on September 18, 1902, after he was arrested the previous day on an accusation of assaulting a white woman near the 7th Street Marshfield Bridge. As news of his arrest spread, a white mob formed; while being transported away from the mob, he fled and hid under docks by the bay overnight as armed men searched for him. The next day he was found and shot twice, and the mob put a noose around his neck and carried him toward the site of the alleged assault, but he died from his wounds on the way. The mob then hanged his body from a light pole on the bridge in broad daylight before 300 spectators, and his body remained there for several hours, prompting Black families to flee Coos Bay. Oregon, whose state constitution banned all Black people by law until 1926, was not an exception to the anti-Black racism that fueled this era, and no one was held accountable for his lynching.