This wasn’t done by ISIS, It was done by so-called Christian America – Jim Crow lynchings were more common than thought with new report adding 700 more murdered African Americans to total of nearly 4,000

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Jim Crow lynchings were more common than thought with new report adding 700 more murdered African Americans to total of nearly 4,000

By ASHLEY COLLMAN FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

The lynching of African Americans in the Jim Crow-era South was much more widespread than initially thought.
A new report found that white mobs murdered a total of 3,959 black persons in 12 southern states between 1877 and 1950, which is a shocking 700 more than previously reported.

—WORST SOUTHERN STATES AND COUNTIES FOR LYNCHING, 1877 – 1950

By state:
1. Georgia – 586
2. Mississippi – 576
3. Louisiana – 540
4. Arkansas – 503
5. Florida – 331
6. Texas – 376
7. Alabama – 326
8. Tennessee – 225
9. South Carolina – 164
10. Kentucky – 154
11. North Carolina – 102
12. Virginia – 76
By county:
1. Phillips, Arkansas – 243
2. Caddo, Louisiana – 54
3. Lafourche, Louisiana – 50
4. Tensas, Louisiana – 40
5. Ouachita, Louisiana – 35
6. Orange, Florida – 34
7. Bossier, Louisiana – 32
8. Marion, Florida – 30
9. Jefferson, Alabama – 29
10. Dallas, Alabama – 25
11. Early, Georgia – 24
12. Iberia, Louisiana – 23

The Montgomery, Alabama based nonprofit Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) spent five years researching newspaper articles, historical archives, and court records on these attacks and revealed the new total in a report published Tuesday.

The organization now plans to use this data to push for the construction of war memorial-style effigies in the communities where these senseless race crimes were committed.
EJI Director Bryan Stevenson admits building these memorials will be met with stiff resistance in the South, where many still proudly hang Confederate flags.

‘We want to change the visual landscape of this country so that when people move through these communities and live in these communities, that they’re mindful of this history,’ Stevenson told The Guardian. ‘We don’t think you should be able to come to these places without facing their histories.’

Many of the attacks, the report says, were carried out for minor transgressions from the black community like touching a white woman or wearing an Army uniform, as opposed to actual crimes.

Also revealed in the report are the Southern counties where these lynchings happened the most.
Black people during this period were most in danger living in Florida where the rate of lynchings was the highest. Georgia had the most overall lynchings at 586. Lynchings were also broken down by county, with Philips County, Arkansas proving to be the bloodiest with a total of 243. That’s much more than the second place county, Louisiana’s Caddo, which reported 50….MORE HERE

 

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