New Report Examines Lynchings And Their Legacy In The United States [NPR.org]

Samantha Sangenito 2/12/1512:00 PM

Nearly 4,000 blacks were lynched in the American South between the end of the Civil War and World War II, according to a new report by the Equal Justice Initiative.

The report, Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror, says that the number of victims in the 12 Southern states was more than 20 percent higher than previously reported.

Lynchings were part of a system of racial terror designed to subjugate a people, says the Alabama-based nonprofit's executive director, Bryan Stevenson.

[For more of this story go to http://www.npr.org/blogs/codes...in-the-united-states]

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