Nearly 4,000 African Americans Were Lynched In One 73-Year Period
between 1877 and 1950, 3,959 African Americans were lynched — 700 more incidents than had ever been calculated before,
black
lynchings in the South occurred when unsubstantiated suspicions arose
about black involvement in white society, and when African Americans
actively resisted racial subordination.
In
1904, a man named General Lee was accused of knocking on a white woman's
door in Reevesville, South Carolina. He was lynched by a white mob.
When
World War I veteran William Little refused to remove his army uniform
in front of a group of white men in Blakely, Georgia, in 1919, he was
also attacked and lynched by a mob.
When World
War I veteran William Little refused to remove his army uniform in front
of a group of white men in Blakely, Georgia, in 1919, he was also
attacked and lynched by a mob.
Many of the
lynchings were justified by suspicions and lacked hard evidence. Being
found guilty of lynching was such a rarity that many of them were
carried out in broad daylight, sometimes on the steps of courthouses
In
1919, Berry Noyse was accused of killing a sheriff in Lexington,
Tennessee. According to the EJI report, "an angry mob lynched him in the
courthouse square, dragged his body through the town, shot it dozens of
times, and burned the body in the middle of the street below hung
banners that read, 'This is the way we do our bit.'"
Lynchings were so widely accepted that they became
cultural events for white spectators. In one 1904 case in Doddsville,
Mississippi, Luther Holbert was suspected of killing a white man.
Holbert and the woman assumed to be his wife were captured by a mob and
tied to a tree, where white civilians were invited to cut their fingers
and ears off.
As the victims were beaten and
burned to death, onlookers are said to have been "enjoying deviled eggs,
lemonade, and whiskey in a picnic-like atmosphere."
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