Judge Lynch: His First Hundred Years (Classic Reprint) - Tapa dura

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Since 1882, when lynchings were first recorded, through 1937, the toll of the mob has been I z vic tims. More than four fifths of these were Negroes, of whom less than one Sixth were accused of rape. Lynchings have declined from a high of 23 5 in 1892 to a low of eight for 1937. The decrease was not con Stant: in 1932 the number fell to ten only to rise to twenty-eight in the following year. It is an inevitable fact that during the coming years certain Americans will meet their deaths at the hands of mobs.

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