--- title: Nearly 4,000 Lynchings Occurred in Jim Crow South, New Report Finds description: Hundreds more than previously known canonical: https://time.com/3703386/jim-crow-lynchings/ author: Victor Luckerson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-02-10T17:33:49.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:59:56.988Z article:section: History og:title: New Report Documents 4,000 Lynchings in Jim Crow South og:description: Hundreds more than previously known og:url: https://time.com/3703386/jim-crow-lynchings/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: New Report Documents 4,000 Lynchings in Jim Crow South twitter:description: Hundreds more than previously known twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # New Report Documents 4,000 Lynchings in Jim Crow South > Sponsored content. 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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar On Racism [Watch (HLS stream): Kareem Abdul-Jabbar On Racism](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/QPdUnHb2.m3u8) (2:21)  _Published 2014-05-05. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: How To Tell If You're a Racist Like Donald Sterling_ by [Victor Luckerson](https://time.com/author/victor-luckerson/) ## Victor Luckerson Feb 10, 2015 5:33 PM UTC by [Victor Luckerson](https://time.com/author/victor-luckerson/) ## Victor Luckerson Feb 10, 2015 5:33 PM UTC A [new report](http://time.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/eji%5Flynching%5Fin%5Famerica%5Fsummary.pdf) has tallied almost 4,000 lynchings of black people in the South during the Jim Crow era, about 700 more than were part of previous tallies of Southern lynchings. The report by the Equal Justice Initiative, a nonprofit that provides legal counsel to the poor, calculates that there were 3,959 lynchings in the South from the end of the Reconstruction era in 1877 to 1950\. The [EJI report](http://time.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/eji%5Flynching%5Fin%5Famerica%5Fsummary.pdf) focuses specifically on what the group calls “racial terror lynchings.” The victims were killed often because they had committed some type of social transgression (like bumping into a white woman) or because they were accused of a crime. In cases involving criminal accusations, lynching victims were not given the due process of a trial. The perpetrators of these lynchings were not charged with crimes for the killings. Georgia had the most lynchings during the period studied, with 586\. Mississippi had the second-most, with 576 killings ,and Louisiana was third with 540\. Florida had the highest rate of lynchings per capita, with 0.594 black residents being lynched annually per 100,000. Bryan Stevenson, the founder of the EJI, is now on a campaign to get more communities to erect markers or memorials at locations where lynchings occurred. Most lynching sites are not publicly acknowledged. ## Transcript From what I can tell, more whites in America believe in ghosts than believe in racism, and that's why we have shows like Ghost busters and not racist busters. [ LAUGH ] As a general rule things don't end well if the sentence starts let me tell you something I know about the Negro. People see the fact that a black American could get elected President, they see that as the end of racism. That's absolutely not the case. [ NOISE ] It's a milestone in a marathon. Just a tip for you. [ LAUGH ] Don't start your sentence that way. I think it's pretty created a false sense of achievement that we've done everything that we need to do, and that we can just slump back into being complacent. Racism, unfortunately, rears it's head in places that you would never expect at, at times that you would never expect. I think the President is in a tough position because as a Black American, if he's. Too proactive or too enthusiastic, about dealing with racism. People think he has agenda. White Americans are not a group that is targeted, so it's a surprise to many White Americans that discrimination and bias can affect people's life. They, they think it's a thing of the past. We have shows like John Stewart and Stephen Colbert they're like colonoscopies into America's bowels. You know, they're looking for the polyps of intolerance. There is no racism in America. There's more Cholera in America than there is -. Than there is racism. [ SOUND ]. More Cholera! Yes. Racism has gone the way of [ NOISE ] where you drink. [ LAUGH ] And I think that by pointing those things out and ridiculing them we get a chance to identify issues and and deal with them in a meaningful way. You know there's only one lead story today and that is the racist comments of LA Clippers owner and Darth Vader with his helmet off, Donald Sterling. [ LAUGH ]. Racism has obviously been a hot topic with regard to sports. And, and Mr. Sterling's problems, but racism as it relates to society at large is something that we don't talk about enough. And inclusion should be the keynote of, of American life. We have people from all over the world that come here, and they can become American Citizens and have a, have a wonderful life here. 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