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Nearly 3,500 African Americans and 1,300 whites were lynched in the United States between 1882 and 1968. [1] Most lynchings were of African-American men in the Southern United States, but women were also lynched. More than 73 percent of lynchings in the post–Civil War period occurred in the Southern states. [2]
Mexicans were lynched at a rate of 27.4 per 100,000 of population between 1880 and 1930. This statistic was second only to that of the African American community, which endured an average of 37.1 per 100,000 of population during that period. Between 1848 and 1879, Mexicans were lynched at an unprecedented rate of 473 per 100,000 of population. [27]
[21] [22] Lynching came to be associated with the Deep South; 73 percent of lynchings took place in the Southern United States. [23] [24] Between 1882 and 1903, 125 black-on-black lynchings were recorded in 10 southern states, as were four cases of whites being lynched by black people. [25] There were 115 recorded cases of women lynched between ...
More than 4,300 Black people were lynched throughout the U.S. between 1870 and 1950, ... which included a reduction in the number of documented lynchings in the South throughout the 1890s.
In the South, tensions arising from Reconstruction led to several lynchings. Scholars estimate that 4,742 total people, mostly male, were lynched from 1882 to 1968. About 3,445 of those individuals were African American and 1,297 were white. [14]
We could talk about the more than 4,700 Black Americans who were lynched in the Deep South from 1882 to 1968. The vast majority of killers never went to court; those who did were cleared by all ...
Leo Frank's lynching on the morning of August 17, 1915. [1] There are multiple recorded incidents of the lynching of American Jews occurring between 1868 and 1964 in the American South. In 1868 in Tennessee, Samuel Bierfield became the first American Jew to be lynched. The lynching of Leo Frank is the most well-known case in American history. [2]
Dennoriss Richardson’s body was found in a part of the Deep South state with a history of lynchings. ... at least 11 people were lynched in Colbert County between 1877 and 1943.