A depressing end of the year round-up listing the 1916 lynchings concentrating on the state of Georgia as the lynching champion for the second year in a row (Louisiana, Mississippi and Missouri were all tied for the 1914 title).
The sub-plot for the article centers on race hatred as one factor among many which justified the “northward migration of the Negroes” which was actively in full-swing at the time this column had gone to press.
Click here if you would like to see the lynching records for 1918.
Click here for the Ku Klux Klan Archive
Racism Practiced Within Pro-Prohibition States 1916New York Age Newspaper 1917Atlanta Constitution Newspaper Concerning Lynchings 1916Press Newspaper Savanah Georgia Opines Lynching Issue 1916Black Migration 1917Robert R Motron Tuskegee Institute 1917Georgia Lynching 1916Texas Racism 1916Texas Race Crimes 1916Georgia Lynching Record 1916
Racism Practiced Within Pro-Prohibition States 1916New York Age Newspaper 1917Atlanta Constitution Newspaper Concerning Lynchings 1916Press Newspaper Savanah Georgia Opines Lynching Issue 1916Black Migration 1917Robert R Motron Tuskegee Institute 1917Georgia Lynching 1916Texas Racism 1916Texas Race Crimes 1916Georgia Lynching Record 1916
