Destruction woven
tightly with every strand -
racial corruption.
Image by Siggy Nowak from Pixabay
Facts About Lynchings:
- According to NAACP records, 4,743 lynchings occurred in the U.S. between the years 1882 and 1968.
- Not just African Americans were lynched, but Latinos/Hispanics, Native Americans, and those who are White were also lynched too. Race intersects with the other identity demographics like gender and age to be included in these lynchings as well.
- Most sentences carried out for lynchings, if there were any, were wrongful allegations and nonsense, such as robbery and asking for a drink of water.
- White children were included in the lynch mob audience watching African Americans struggle during their hangings and African American children were lynched too.
- At the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, AL, there's a section that was nicknamed as the "wall of tears" that had this inscription: "THOUSANDS OF AFRICAN AMERICANS ARE UNKNOWN VICTIMS OF RACIAL TERROR LYNCHINGS WHOSE DEATHS CANNOT BE DOCUMENTED, MANY WHOSE NAMES WILL NEVER BE KNOWN. THEY ARE HONORED HERE." (Why Did They Hate Us?)
- Before, during, and after the executions, the slaves were also tortured by stripping, burning, beating, muzzled, etc.
Image from History.com / Human Pictures - Equal Justice Initiative
Sources to read more information and view photos:
- Without Sanctuary - The title of this website speaks for itself. There are many recovered images displaying the various kinds of lynchings and what they looked like. Very graphic with descriptions. https://withoutsanctuary.com/
- Statista - Title: Number of executions by lynching in the United States by state and race between 1882 and 1968 - https://www.statista.com/statistics/1175147/lynching-by-race-state-and-race/
- NAACP - Title: History of Lynching in America - https://naacp.org/find-resources/history-explained/history-lynching-america
- History.com - Title: 'Why Did They Hate Us': Explaining the Lynching Memorial to My Son - https://www.history.com/news/lynching-museum-visiting-children
- This just happened today. President Joe Biden signed an antilynching bill by the Equal Justice Iniative. Title: Antilynching Act Signed Into Law - https://eji.org/news/antilynching-act-signed-into-law/
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