Sick culture: Nearly 4000 blacks lynched in the US from 1877 to 1950

Nearly 4000 black victims were lynched in 12 states in the southern United States from 1877 to 1950, an average of more than one a week for 73 years, a new study has revealed.

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Sick culture: Nearly 4000 blacks lynched in the US from 1877 to 1950 1423599382393

The Equal Justice Initiative, a human rights group in Alabama, spent years researching what it called racial terrorism and visited countless sites where the brutal murders took place.

It documents 3959 lynchings in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia.

The group says it found 700 more victims than any previous study into the thousands of black men, women and children who were lynched in the South in this period.

http://www.smh.com.au/world/nearly-4000-blacks-lynched-in-the-us-from-1877-to-1950-study-20150210-13b93y.html

Sick culture: Nearly 4000 blacks lynched in the US from 1877 to 1950

Sick culture: Nearly 4000 blacks lynched in the US from 1877 to 1950

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