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Re: The Law & Lynching
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Henry Wiencek <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 26 Jun 2007 07:17:11 -0400
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Regarding the NAACP estimate of lynchings -- they actually kept a count as
these things were happening. They listed date, place, and other information.
You can probably find it online. I don't know how they came up with the
number of lynchings prior to the founding of the group. See also "Lynching
in the New South: Georgia and Virginia, 1880-1930" by Brundage, W. Fitzhugh
(William Fitzhugh), University of Illinois Press, 1993.

This just came across my desk:

"The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane."
---Mark Twain, 1907

Henry Wiencek

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