Lynching in America
Subtitle: confronting the legacy of racial terror
By: Equal Justice Initiative
Publisher: Equal Justice Initiative
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Montgomery, Ala
Language: eng
Number of pages: 88
Subjects: Lynching; History; Race relations
Description: Documents the Institute's multi-year investigation into lynching in twelve Southern states during the period between Reconstruction and World War II. Our researchers verified 3959 racial terror lynchings of African Americans in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia between 1877 and 1950 -- at least 700 more lynchings of black people in these states than previously reported in the most comprehensive work done on lynching to date. Makes the case that lynching of African Americans was terrorism, a widely supported phenomenon used to enforce racial subordination and segregation.
Notes: "This report is part of EJI's race and poverty project, which examines the history of racial injustice in America and the impact of structural poverty on a range of issues."--Page 3 of cover.

A report prepared by the staff of the Equal Justice Initiative.

"... the second in a series of reports that examines the trajectory of American history from slavery to mass incarceration"--Page 4.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 74-87).
Table of contents: title: Secession and Emancipation, 1861-1865; title: Back To Brutality: Restoring Racial Hierarchy Through Terror and Violence; title: Lynching in America: From "Popular Justice" to Racial Terror; title: Enabling an Era of Lynching: Retreat, Resistance, and Refuge; title: Confronting Lynching; title: Trauma and the Legacy of Lynching.