The history of lynching across the United States
Posted January 8th, 2013 by James DeWolf PerryCategory: History Tags: American South, Jim Crow, Lynching, Northern complicity
Today Slate shared with their readers an historical map depicting the incidence of lynching in the United States during the years 1900-1931.
This map, offered by Slate through its new history blog, “The Vault,” was originally compiled by researchers at the Tuskegee Institute, under the leadership of Booker T. Washington.
The map is a dry, statistical compilation of death at the hands of communities across the country:
