Why? There were many more white people lynched than blacks.
According to a friend there were more mexicans than blacks lynched.
She’s been spouting this for years and yet, I am unable to verify it.
I just usually let it go.
PR firms, at their most basic function, are supposed to be able to create favorable views of a company - and naturally, avoid bad publicity.
Regardless of your opinion of the name, they should have known they were courting controversy.
“According to the Tuskegee Institute figures, between the years 1882 and 1951, 4,730 people were lynched in the United States: 3,437 Negro and 1,293 white The largest number of lynchings occurred in 1892. Of the 230 persons lynched that year, 161 were Negroes and sixty-nine whites.”
http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1979/2/79.02.04.x.html#b
Given their much smaller percentage of the population, blacks were lynched at a much higher.