Racial Violence in the United States, 1863 to Present

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Map of Lynchings in Southern Counties, 1882-1930

From http://peterslarson.com/2010/05/09/lynching-data/

Lynchings by Year for Black and White Victims, 1882-1930

From http://peterslarson.com/2010/05/09/lynching-data/

Lynchings by States and Counties in the United States 1900 to 1931

Research Department, Tuskegee Institute

Lynchings: By State and Race: 1882-1968

Archives at the Tuskegee Institute

Lynching Database

From Project Hal as of 9/9/14

Lynchings Average by State per Decade: A Very Partial Comparison of the South and States Outside of the South

Chart by Todd Villeneuve. Data sourced from 1) A Festival of Violence: An Analysis of Southern Lynchings, 1882-1930 by Stewart E. Tolnay and E.M. Beck; 2) "'Light is Bursting Upon the World!': White Supremacy and Racist Violence against Blacks in Reconstruction Kansas"; and, 3) "Race, Sex and Riot: The Springfield, Ohio Race riots of 1904 and 1906 and the Sources of Antiblack Violence in the Lower Midwest". Both Sources 2 and 3 are found in Lynching Beyond Dixie: American Mob Violence Outside the South, edited by Michael J. Pfeifer.

Lynching Data by Category categorized by Todd Villeneuve.

Data originally compiled in 100 Years of Lynching by Ralph Ginzburg.