White Americans lynched at least 6,500 Black people between 1865 and 1950.

Evidence

According to a 2020 report by the Equal Justice Initiative, white Americans lynched at least 6,500 Black people from the end of the Civil War to 1950, an average of three every two weeks for eight and a half decades. (Since 2015, law enforcement has killed, on average, nearly five Black people a week.53) The scale of the destruction during the 1900s is incalculable. — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 1357

Categorization

• SHARE: The juxtaposition of 3 lynchings every two weeks historically with 5 police killings a week today is a striking comparison worth sending to anyone thinking about continuity of racial violence.
• XREF: connects to: Over 4,400 verified lynchings of African Americans occurred between 1877 and 1950 — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long: The Legacy of White…, 568