A depressing end of the year round-up listing the 1916 lynchings concentrating on the state of Georgia as the lynching champion for the second year in a row (Louisiana, Mississippi and Missouri were all tied for the 1914 title).
The sub-plot for the article centers on race hatred as one factor among many which justified the “northward migration of the Negroes” which was actively in full-swing at the time this column had gone to press.
Click here if you would like to see the lynching records for 1918.
Click here for the Ku Klux Klan Archive
