A Comprehensive Map of American Lynchings

http://www.citylab.com/equity/2017/01/a-comprehensive-map-of-american-lynchings/513293/
Date Written:  2017-01-12
Publisher:  Citylab
Year Published:  2017
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX22613

A look at the practice of lynching in the United States through to the 1960's, where thousands of non-white Americans, mostly black, were killed in public acts of terror. A new map project called 'Monroe Work Today', named after the pioneering sociologist, shows that lynching was not limited to the southern states.

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The mapmakers go into great detail on the sources and accuracy of their data. "We will never have a perfect list of all people who met their death by lynching in the U.S.," they write in a lengthy FAQ - many victims were barely recorded. One archival database, gathered and housed at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, forms the foundation of this map. From 1912 to 1936, Monroe Work, the founder of Tuskegee's Department of Records and Research, compiled biannual, independently verified lynching reports that reached back to the early 1880s. To build the map, Auut Studio checked and supplemented Work's findings with reams of modern research on lynching and race riots, listed here. Every victim mentioned on the map has a citation to at least one or supporting source.