Re: The Lynching of Black Folks "Washington was pulled up City Hall's hanging tree and then burned. About 15,000 people,
half of Waco's population, had gathered to watch the lynching.
Courtesy of the Texas Collection, Baylor University." LINK HERE
"Most of the lynching took place in the south, and the state with the highest lynching was Mississippi, with 539 black victims and 42 white. Mississippi was followed by Georgia with 492 black victims and 39 white, Texas with 352 and 141, Louisiana with 335 and 56, and Alabama with 299 and 48. Even though lynching took place in most states in the US, there are also some states without any records of lynching from 1882 to 1968. These few states are Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Alaska, Connecticut, and Massachusetts. There are also some states did not lynch any black to record, Arizona, South Dakota, Idaho, Maine, Wisconsin, Vermont, and Nevada.
From 1882 to 1901, the annual number of lynches nationally usually exceeded 100. The record holder is 1892, with 230 recorded deaths, 161 black and 69 white. The amount of lynches declined somewhat in the twentieth century, there were still 97 in 1908, 89 black and 8 white, 83 in the 1919 76 black and 7 white, 30 in 1926 23 and 7, and 28 in 1933 24and 4. The numbers continued to decline until the classic form of lynching had disappeared in 1968.
Re: The Lynching of Black Folks AND cut their tongue for speaking, teaching, revolting, eating drinking the food they were planting/harvesting. “If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.”
― Zora Neale Hurston
Re: The Lynching of Black Folks Vituperative spiritual degeneration means harsh or abusive energy and that is a force to be reckoned with because this evil force will eventually dominate your spirit if you don't fight back. With that said, please be aware that GMOs and cancer will kill millions of Black folks. Plus the damage will be self inflicted!