By Sky News US Team
Federal authorities are investigating the death of an African-American man who was found hanged in woodland in Mississippi.
FBI spokesman Jason Pack said that the man had not been seen since 2 March.
He had gone missing in a wooded area in Claiborne County in western Mississippi. His body was found during a search by local law enforcement officers.
The Mississippi chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) identified the dead man as Otis Byrd, 54, and called for a swift and thorough federal investigation into his death.
"Mr Byrd was found hung in a tree, and because of that we want to ensure it was not in fact a racial hate crime," said Derrick Johnson, president of the Mississippi State Conference of the NAACP.
A cause of death has not been determined and authorities are unclear whether the man was killed or took his own life.
The investigation is being carried out by the FBI, the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division and the US Attorney's office.
Johnie Baker, 87, owns the land where the body was found - about 200 yards from Mr Byrd's house.
Mr Baker, who did not accompany authorities on the search, described it as an area of pecan and black walnut trees, frequented by hunters and home to several wild hogs.
Lynching, or extrajudicial public execution by hanging, was once a common practice in parts of the US in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. By one estimate, some 3,500 African Americans and 1,300 whites were lynched from 1882 to 1968.
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