Lynching in America makes the case that lynching of African Americans was terrorism, a widely supported phenomenon used to enforce racial subordination and segregation. 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. 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.ĮJI 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 18-at least 800 more lynchings of Black people in these states than previously reported in the most comprehensive work done on lynching to date.
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