For almost all African Americans who were growing up in the South the threat of lynching was very common. Lynching was used as an act of terror for blacks, the goal was to distill fear inside of them so they cant function in society normally. Lynching began in 1882 and lasted until around 1968. A total of 4743 lynchings occurred in the United States making this a widespread horrific justice oppressed people would endure. They were a huge flagrant public display, like the executions by guillotines in the medival times. They were often advertised in newpapers and drew large crowds of white families. Most of these lynchings took place in the South because of the end of the Civil War. Even though there were a lot of different people lynched, out of all of them 3446 were black which was approximately. 72.7%.
Even though a majority of these lynchings came from the South there were many in the West. Most of the lynchings were murderers or cattle thieves.There really was no political link to the lynching of blacks in the South, and whites in the West. The state that had the highest rate or lynchings was Mississipi at 581 but not all states did lynch people. In fact some states didn not lynch a single white or black person. These states inlcude Alaska, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Connecticut. These were states that had no lynchings from 1882-1968 which was very impressive considering all states around them could have had extremely high rates of lynching.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/emmett-lynching-america/
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