Lynchings weren’t even very much racial. They were political.
About 1,200 some odd blacks were hung. Lesser known is that around 1,100 WHITES were also hung during the same time frame.
The common denominator? They were ALL republican.
The lynchings were to discourage black folk from being republican.
From what I’ve gleaned from the news stories of that day.
Also, the LAST known lynching was circa 1925. None later.
Close.
The Tuskegee Institute has recorded 3,446 blacks and 1,297 whites were lynched between 1882 and 1968.
Absolute hogwash
Where do you get such nonsense
Plenty folks of all color ....in fact most
Were lynched by vigilantes for crimes
Barely more blacks than whites
My own grandfather attended a lynching when he was a little boy. The perp was caught red handed by multiple people in the act of raping a 12yr old girl. Messed her up so bad she was never able to have kids. Lynched him in the town square.
Oh yeah. He was white.
It wasn’t so much a political statement as it was vigilante justice. And I’m willing to bet it is NOT included in any official numbers either...
Untrue. Though not terribly far off.
Here's a 1946 incident.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1946_Georgia_lynching
One of the problems is definition. Not all murder are lynchings. To my mind lynching implies a semi-public nature of the event, which is more or less the point, to terrify a segment of the community.
Emmett Till was from the mid-50s and is sometimes called a lynching, but it was a secretive crime, not a lynching to my mind.