While the total number of lynchings is difficult to determine during this time period, from 1880 to the mid-twentieth century, the confirmed number of people lynched reached nearly
An lawful murder of an individual as punishment for an unverified crime by a group of people is known as lynching. This act, grew in the United States in the late nineteenth century after the civil war and number was around 4000 incidences that were recorded between 1882 and 1968. Africa-American were the highest group of persons that were lynched in the Southern states during those period.
