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comment by rrrrr
rrrrr  ·  3314 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: America’s Forgotten Mass Lynching: When 237 People Were Murdered In Arkansas

    Something like 52 African Americans were lynched A WEEK on average between 1890 and 1980.

Do you have a source for that statistic? I found this, which would put it at about 52 per year:

    on the average, a black man, woman, or child was murdered nearly once a week, every week, between 1882 and 1930 by a hate-driven white mob

http://www.umass.edu/complit/aclanet/USLynch.html