There were 4,743 lynchings between 1882 and 1968
- About 3,446 of those lynched were Black
- It's important to note: many places that conducted lynching lacked police services
- and some portion of those lynched had committed serious crimes
- Obviously, lynching was a tragedy in our Nation’s history. But...
if you compare it to the body count in:
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