This inventory includes the names of 2400 of the African-Americans who were lynched in the United States from 1865 to 1965. The inventory is necessarily incomplete.
Records are scant.
Newspaper reports are scattered. The Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave. Americans have a long way to go to see full realization of the promises of the Pledge of Allegiance, to see America as a land with Liberty and Justice for All instead of liberty and justice for the white Anglo-Saxon economic elite. To go to a specific place in any of these documents, use the Find On This Page function of your web browser.