South Carolina SC - African Americans - Lynching

South Carolina African Americans – Lynching


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Written by Michael Trinkley of the Chicora Foundation

Between 1882 and 1968, there were 4,743 lynchings in the United States. Of those lynched, 3,446 – or 72.6% – were black. The whites in this total were often lynched for helping blacks or being anti-lynching. Most of these lynchings – fully 79% – took place in the South. South Carolina ranks tenth nationwide.

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