[South40]

About 1,200 some odd blacks were hung. Lesser known is that around 1,100 WHITES were also hung during the same time frame.

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The Tuskegee Institute has recorded 3,446 blacks and 1,297 whites were lynched between 1882 and 1968.

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[PapaBear3625]

The Tuskegee Institute has recorded 3,446 blacks and 1,297 whites were lynched between 1882 and 1968.

So the total number lynched over 86 years was around half the number killed by other blacks in 2011.