Nearly 4,000 blacks were lynched in the American South between the end of the Civil War and World War II, according to a new report by the Equal Justice Initiative.
The report, Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror, says that the number of victims in the 12 southern states was more than 20 percent higher than previously reported.
Lynchings were part of a system of racial terror designed to subjugate a people, says the Alabama-based nonprofit’s executive director, Bryan Stevenson.
This is a helpful link of lynchings by race and state from 1882-1968 — stats from the Tuskegee Institute:
law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/shipp/lynchingsstate.html
I’m not certain what Tuskegee did with the Hispanics out west — perhaps they were folded into the “white” race? But it is still interesting.
A lot of the whites lynched in the South were Republican Party politicians murdered as the Democrats/KKK were consolidating control. Some sources say there were about 1300 of those lynchings.