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To: ladyjane

“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.


48 posted on 12/07/2014 7:43:28 PM PST by Sherman Logan
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To: Sherman Logan

You’re showing only part of the data from the Tuskegee Institute. If you look at all the lynchings in this country, white hangings outnumber the blacks.

From the same Tuskegee Institute you didn’t include this:

“In Oklahoma lynching generally followed the national trend. Surveys by the Tuskegee Institute, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and various scholars identify approximately 147 recorded lynching deaths from 1885 to1930 (dozens more probably went unrecorded). These numbered 77 white, 50 black, 14 American Indian, 1 Chinese, and 5 of unknown race. In Oklahoma, hanging was the most common form; with a few exceptions, burning was not used.

In the first phase of lynching in Oklahoma, 1885 through 1907, most victims were whites, punished primarily as rustlers, “highwaymen,” or robbers. In those years, 106 individuals were lynched for suspected criminal activities. While 1892 was the peak year nationally, 1893-95 were the peak in the Twin Territories, with cattle/horse theft and robbery the main offenses. The 106 victims included 71 whites, 17 blacks, 14 Indians, 1 Chinese, and 3 of unknown race.

There is another website that shows US hangings by year and by race. I’m not at a place to find it right now but it shows whites were hanged more often than blacks.


51 posted on 12/08/2014 8:37:55 AM PST by ladyjane
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