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August 07, 2003
Lynch Factor (non)Adjustment
It has come to my attention that there is a more precise number attributable to American lynchings of blacks in particular than I had previously supposed. I got my number from listening to a radio broadcast of Eric Foner last winter when I was working in Atlanta. According to Leon Litwack the correct number for blacks is 4,742 over an 86 year period ending in 1968. My previous assumption was roughly 3000 including whites over about the same period.
While mine is a significant underestimation of the body count, I still think it serves a useful purpose is guiding my radar level of geopolitical interest. FWIW.
Posted by mbowen at August 7, 2003 11:29 AM
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