Only a third of lynched Black men were even charged with rape

Evidence

From a sample of 728 lynching reports in recent years, Wells found that only about a third of lynching victims had “ever been charged with rape, to say nothing of those who were innocent of the charge.” White men were lying about Black-on-White rape, and hiding their own assaults of Black women, Wells raged. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 724

Categorization

• XREF: Pairs with the critique in ‘On Sacrifice’ territory about how dominant narratives of Black criminality justified spectacular violence — here Wells’ data punctures the rape justification directly.