Lynching in America : confronting the legacy of racial terror
Equal Justice Initiative (Author)
"Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror documents EJI's multi-year investigation into lynching in 12 Southern states during the period between Reconstruction and World War II. EJI researchers documented 4075 racial terror lynchings of African Americans in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia between 1877 and 1950--at least 800 more lynchings of black people in these states than previously reported in the most comprehensive work done on lynching to date. In 2017, EJI supplemented this research by documenting racial terror lynchings in other states, and found these acts of violence were most common in eight states: Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Maryland, Missouri, Ohio, Oklahoma, and West Virginia ... The report explores the ways in which lynching profoundly impacted race relations in this country and shaped the contemporary geographic, political, social, and economic conditions of African Americans"--Overview from 'Lynching in America' website, viewed June 28, 2020
eBook, English, 2017
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Equal Justice Initiative, Montgomery, Alabama, 2017
official reports
1 online resource (88 pages, 1 unnumbered page) : illustrations (some color)
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A report prepared by the staff of the Equal Justice Initiative