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 Â 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.
