Organized terror killed ten to one hundred times more Blacks than whites after Reconstruction

Evidence

Using a technique of mass and midnight murder, the South began widely organized aggression upon the Negroes… . Armed guerrilla warfare killed thousands of Negroes; political riots were staged; their causes or occasions were always obscure, their results always certain: ten to one hundred times as many Negroes were killed as whites, (p. 674) The violence and terror that descended upon Blacks during the fifty years that followed Reconstruction, left the Black elite shaken and pared down to its opportunists: Negroes did not surrender the ballot easily or immediately… — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 970