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“Violence, mass lynchings, and lawlessness enabled white Southerners to create a regime of white supremacy and Black disenfranchisement alongside a new economic order that continued to exploit Black labor," the new report said.
The Equal Justice Initiative said its researchers have documented 6,500 lynchings between 1865 and 1950, including 2,000 attacks during Reconstruction that weren’t tallied in its previous reports.
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At least 2,000 more black people were lynched by white mobs than previously reported, new research finds
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“Violence, mass lynchings, and lawlessness enabled white Southerners to create a regime of white supremacy and Black disenfranchisement alongside a new economic order that continued to exploit Black labor," the new report said.
The Equal Justice Initiative said its researchers have documented 6,500 lynchings between 1865 and 1950, including 2,000 attacks during Reconstruction that weren’t tallied in its previous reports.
About this website
WASHINGTONPOST.COM
At least 2,000 more black people were lynched by white mobs than previously reported, new research finds