Anti-black violence persisted past lynching’s peak as land grabs

Evidence

Racial violence like lynching was designed to strip black Americans of their citizenship rights, including the right to own property, vote, and live peaceably, but it also manifested in other forms, such as land grabs and race riots, where black Americans were attacked by large mobs, as in Tulsa in 1921. Although the number of lynchings peaked in the 1890s, similarly brutal attacks continued well into the twentieth century. In 2001 the Associated Press (AP) conducted an eighteen-month investigation of black land loss in America “over the last 150-plus years” and recorded fifty-seven instances of land grabs. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 309

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: White supremacist violence against Black residents persisted from the 1900s into the 1990s. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations: How Building a…, 352; Lynching sites remain alive as present-day property-based harms for black families — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations: How Building a…, 439