Thursday, October 11, 2018

3,178 Murders


Alabama

Many African Americans who were never accused of any crime were tortured and murdered in front of picnicking spectators, including elected officials and prominent citizens for bumping into a white person, or wearing their military uniforms after World War I, or not using the appropriate title when addressing a white person.

County votes for Trump: 90.0%
State votes for Trump:
62.9%
White pop.:
94.3%



Arkansas

A total of 284 lynching’s were recorded in Arkansas. 237 lives were taken during a massive attack on sharecroppers and laborers. When Black sharecroppers came together in an attempt to become unionized, white landowners and the elite saw this as a serious threat to their own financial growth and prosperity.

County votes for Trump: 80.4%

State votes for Trump: 60.4%

White pop.: 88.7%



Florida

There were 282 reported lynching’s in Florida. A 1993 article by the Orlando Sentinel explains. “Now, a sweeping new study of lynching in the South has found that blacks were more likely to be lynched in Florida than in any other state. For every 1,250 Black people in Florida between 1882 to 1930, one was lynched. This is seven times higher than the rate for North Carolina and almost twice the rate that was in Georgia.

County votes for Trump: 87.9%

State votes for Trump: 49.1%

White pop.: 87.3%



Georgia

Georgia had 531 lynching’s. New Georgia Encyclopedia entry reveals that there was at least one mob killing of a Black person every month.

County votes for Trump: 88.5%

State votes for Trump: 51.3%

White pop.: 92.6%



Kentucky 

205 people were lynched in the state of Kentucky. They all met with unbelievably inhumane deaths. A glimpse of just how much terrorism Blacks faced in Kentucky can be found in the March 25, 1871 letter sent to the U.S. Congress asking for protection from the government.

County votes for Trump: 89.4%

State votes for Trump: 62.5%

White pop.: 98.6%



Louisiana

Louisiana had a recorded 391 total lynching’s. the entire state was more focused on creating more systemic ways to protect white supremacy rather than taking a violent approach, instead sugar and cotton planters  manipulated plantation arrangements and the criminal justice system to ensure the maintenance of white supremacy.

County votes for Trump: 88.8%

State votes for Trump: 58.1%

White pop.: 83.2%



Mississippi

With well over 581 lynching’s, Mississippi tops the list with the most total lynching’s, according to statistics provided by the Tuskegee Institute.

14-year-old Emmet Till’s body was found with a 70-pound cotton gin fan tied around his neck with barbed wire.

County votes for Trump: 88.0%

State votes for Trump: 58.3%

White pop.: 87.9%



South Carolina

With 160 lynching’s throughout the state, South Carolina had the 10th highest number of lynching’s. According to Tuskegee Institute’s data, most of the victims were innocent. Anthony Crawford simply got into a verbal disagreement over the price of cottonseed, according to Elizabeth Rauh Bethel’s Promiseland, A Century of Life in a Negro Community, which was published by the University of South Carolina.

County votes for Trump: 73.9%

 State votes for Trump: 54.9%

 White pop.: 86.5%



Tennessee

Tennessee had 251 confirmed lynching’s that led to the deaths of at least 204 Black people. According to The Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture, Lynching’s took place in 70 counties throughout the state with most happening in Shelby County. The Memphis Press even described the burning of one Black prisoner, Henry Lowery, as an “outstanding lynch success.”

County votes for Trump: 86.2%

State votes for Trump: 61.1%

White pop.: 90.7%



Texas

Texas State Historical Association (TSHA) revealed The Lone Star state had a total of 493 recorded lynching’s. White mobs hoping to “restore white supremacy” would frequently seek out suspected slave rebels and white abolitionists.

County votes for Trump: 90.5%

State votes for Trump: 52.6%

White pop.: 68.8% (85th of 254 TX counties)



*These numbers represent the recorded number of lynching’s and don’t account for the many Black victims who were lynched secretly before their bodies were burned or disposed of without any official record being made.

3,178 Murders


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