Lynching Preachers: How Black Pastors Resisted Jim Crow and White Pastors Incited Racial Violence
Religion was no barrier for lynch mobs intent on terror. White pastors incited racial violence and took part in lynchings even though sometimes the victim was a preacher.
The Conversation Malcolm Brian Foley
White lynch mobs in America murdered at least 4,467 people between 1883 and 1941, hanging, burning, dismembering, garroting and blowtorching their victims.
Their violence was widespread but not indiscriminate: About 3,300 of the lynched were black, according to the most recent count by sociologists Charles Seguin and David Rigby. The remaining dead were white, Mexican, of Mexican descent, Native American, Chinese or Japanese.
Such numbers, based on verifiable newspaper reports, represent a minimum. The full human toll of racial lynching may remain ever beyond reach.
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