This last month has shown America that society will gladly tolerate vigilante violence, provided a vigilante chooses the right target.
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Lynching In America: New Report Documents Nearly 4,000 Killings In Jim Crow South
Researchers at the Alabama-based Equal Jusitice Initiative reviewed historical archives, court records and African-American newspapers, and interviewed historians, lynching survivors and victims' descendants to calculate the figures.
