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Dec 18, 20191 min

Between 1877 and 1950, more than 4,000 African-American men, women and children were lynched

Updated: Apr 2, 2023

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The survey details nearly 2,000 racial terror lynchings of black men, women and children during the Reconstruction era of 1865 to 1876.

In 2015, EJI researchers released a report documenting more than 4,400 lynchings that took place between 1877 and 1950.

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