Racist terror resurged in the 1980s as the Klan tripled membership

Evidence

In the United States, the Ku Klux Klan tripled its membership and waged a campaign of terror and intimidation against African Americans. In Mississippi in 1980 (not 1890), at least twelve African Americans were lynched, and at least forty racially motivated murders occurred in cities as different as Buffalo, New York, Atlanta, Georgia, and Mobile, Alabama. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 27

Categorization

• CANDY: The fact that at least twelve Black Americans were lynched in Mississippi in 1980 rather than 1890 is a striking, shareable table-turner.
• XREF: connects to: Reported terrorist attacks fell below 1980s levels by the early 2000s — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 878