Lynchings Were Even More Common in the South Than Previously Thought

"Between 1877 and 1950, lynching was all too common in the segregated South. But even previous accounts of thousands of lynchings did not document the full extent of this practice. Now,  in a new report, a group of criminal justice reformers, led by Bryan Stevenson, has enumerated hundreds more lynchings than previous work had counted, in states including Alabama, Kentucky, North Carolina and Virginia.

The new report, by the Equal Justice Initiative, counts 700 cases of lynchings that were not previously reported, bringing the death toll to nearly 4,000..."

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