Map of 73 Years of Lynchings

[kpete]

Map of 73 Years of Lynchings
The most recent data on lynching, compiled by the Equal Justice Initiative, shows premeditated murders carried out by at least three people from 1877 to 1950. The killers claimed to be enforcing some form of social justice. The alleged offenses that prompted the lynchings included political activism and testifying in court. FEB. 9, 2015


http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/02/10/us/map-of-73-years-of-lynching.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/10/us/history-of-lynchings-in-the-south-documents-nearly-4000-names.html

[F4lconF16]

1. Curious to see if there's any data on police lynchings. nt

[Jackpine Radical]

2. That map is only of the South.

There were lynchings in the north too, even in places that surprise you, like one in Duluth, MN in the 1920's. It does a disservice to everyone to forget that.

[Orrex]

4. Well, the map shows Pennsylvania at least, but I agree with you.

Unless they're using a selective and narrow definition of "lynching," they should give a more complete map of this sick (and ongoing) chapter in our history.

[haikugal]

8. I don't see PA on the map..

Maybe it's just me..I'd like to see the whole country, only because I'd like the whole picture.

[Orrex]

11. Don't look at the map that was posted--look at the map I was thinking of.

Yeah, thinking of a different map. Dumb mistake.

[haikugal]

12. The map in your head?

LOL...I even clicked the link and pulled up Google, nope not there..

[Orrex]

13. Keep looking--it's in there somewhere

[haikugal]

14. Yeah sure it is...ha!

After all it is called Pennsyltucky..

[philosslayer]

9. Has Pennsylvania been moved?

I really need to pay more attention to whats going on.

[Orrex]

10. Yes it was. Shut up. Just shut up dammit!

Teach me to post without reading. I was thinking of a different map not shown in this article. Whoopsie.

[jwirr]

17. If we ignore the ones like Duluth then we are ignoring the fact that bigotry can be found everywhere

If I am not mistaken didn't three men die in that Duluth lynching?

[sybylla]

18. Absolutely agree, Jackpine.

This really disappoints me and only abets the notion that lynchings were exclusively a southern problem. Having spent 27 years researching my family history, I've spent hours upon hours scouring old newspapers in Wisconsin and other states, appalled at the casual attitude about finding people hanging dead from trees. Not all of them were black, but it happened often enough especially during the depression when there were so many transients coming and going.

Nearly every time these incidents were reported as suicides and never investigated, and maybe to be fair the tools for investigating weren't there, but Weeping Jesus, there were plenty of assholes up here that are getting a skate from historical analysis.

If I recall correctly, there were several possible lynchings mentioned in the book Wisconsin Death Trip alone.

[bluestateguy]

3. Lynchings also happened in the North and the West

The NYT should include the whole country in their map.

The NAACP was founded in response to a lynching in Illinois.

[bighart]

5. Would like to see a map depicting all states.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

6. very incomplete data...

i know this article is specifically related to the South... but there is more to be seen...

http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/shipp/lynchingsstate.html

sP

[JHB]

15. To crunch some more numbers, the 12 states in the NYTimes map...

... (using the numbers in your link and not the Times article) account for 78.6% of total lynchings and 92% of lynchings where the victim was black.

So the Times article is incomplete, but there is a solid reason to focus on those states.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

7. 1400+ lynchings not on this map... n/t

[Spitfire of ATJ]

16. And the South screams, "Hey! That's not fair to just show US!"...

(As if the North was just as bad.)

[Liberal Veteran]

19. I'll just leave this here.