Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror SUPPLEMENT: Lynchings by County Equal Justice Initiative 122 Commerce Street Montgomery, Alabama 36104 334.269.1803 www.eji.org
African American Lynching Victims in the South, 1877-1950 Number of Lynchings per County/Parish ALABAMA Autauga 3 Baldwin 2 Barbour 3 Bibb 14 Blount 1 Bullock 3 Butler 12 Calhoun 5 Chambers 2 Cherokee 3 Chilton 9 Choctaw 6 Clarke 6 Clay 1 Cleburne 1 Coffee 3 Colbert 12 Coosa 2 Covington 7 Crenshaw 3 Dale 3 Dallas 25 Elmore 12 Escambia 1 Etowah 2 Franklin 2 Geneva 2 Greene 1 Hale 1 Henry 5 Houston 6 Jackson 3 Jefferson 29 Lamar 5 Lauderdale 1 Lawrence 4 Lee 4 Limestone 1 Lowndes 12 Macon 1 Madison 8 Marengo 4 Marion 1 Mobile 9 Monroe 12 Montgomery 13 Morgan 3 Perry 1 Pickens 13 Pike 3 Russell 2 Shelby 4 St. Clair 6 Sumter 6 Talladega 5 Tallapoosa 2 Tuscaloosa 7 Walker 1 Washington 3 Wilcox 5 ARKANSAS Arkansas 16 Ashley 12 Baxter 1 Boone 1 Bradley 3 Calhoun 3 Chicot 3 Clark 6 Cleburne 1 Cleveland 3 Columbia 3 Conway 4 Craighead 1 Crittenden 7 Cross 4 Desha 7 Drew 9 Faulkner 4 Garland 3 Grant 1 Hempstead 7 Hot Spring 1 Howard 5 Jackson 4 Jefferson 10 Johnson 3 Lafayette 6 Lawrence 1 Lee 16 Lincoln 9 Little River 11 Logan 1 Lonoke 10 Miller 8 Mississippi 9 Monroe 11 Nevada 2 Ouachita 11 Perry 3 Phillips 243 Poinsett 2 Polk 1 Pope 2 Prairie 2 Pulaski 6 Sebastian 1 Sevier 5 St. Francis 6 Stone 1 Union 6 White 4 Woodruff 3 Yell 1 FLORIDA Alachua 19 Baker 6 Bay 2 Bradford 5 Brevard 1 Broward 1 Calhoun 4 Charlotte 1 Citrus 7 Clay 1 Collier 1 Columbia 17 DeSoto 3 Duval 8 Escambia 6 Franklin 2 Gadsden 4 Gilchrist 1 Hamilton 6 Hardee 1 2
Hernando 10 Hillsborough 7 Holmes 4 Jackson 10 Lafayette 9 Lake 4 Lee 3 Leon 5 Levy 8 Madison 15 Manatee 6 Marion 30 Miami-Dade 6 Monroe 3 Orange 34 Osceola 2 Palm Beach 2 Pasco 6 Pinellas 4 Polk 19 Putnam 5 Santa Rosa 4 Seminole 2 St. Johns 1 Sumter 3 Suwannee 10 Taylor 17 Volusia 5 Washington 1 GEORGIA Appling 3 Baker 8 Baldwin 3 Barrow 1 Bartow 5 Cook 1 Bibb 8 Bleckley 4 Brooks 21 Bryan 3 Bulloch 9 Burke 3 Butts 3 Calhoun 3 Camden 2 Campbell 1 Candler 1 Carroll 2 Catoosa 2 Chatham 3 Chattahoochee 1 Chattooga 4 Clarke 5 Clay 6 Clayton 3 Clinch 2 Cobb 1 Coffee 8 Colquitt 8 Columbia 8 Coweta 4 Crawford 1 Crisp 9 Dade 2 Decatur 12 DeKalb 5 Dodge 11 Dooly 4 Douglas 1 Early 24 Echols 1 Effingham 4 Elbert 2 Emanuel 7 Fayette 1 Floyd 4 Forsyth 1 Franklin 4 Fulton 11 Glascock 3 Glynn 3 Gordon 2 Grady 2 Greene 2 Gwinnett 3 Habersham 6 Hancock 2 Haralson 1 Harris 8 Hart 2 Henry 1 Houston 6 Irwin 3 Jackson 1 Jasper 10 Jefferson 2 Jenkins 5 Johnson 6 Jones 5 Lamar 4 Laurens 8 Lee 5 Liberty 4 Lincoln 3 Lowndes 6 Macon 6 Madison 1 Marion 3 McDuffie 2 McIntosh 4 Meriwether 6 Miller 8 Mitchell 9 Monroe 8 Montgomery 8 Morgan 2 Murray 2 Muscogee 6 Newton 2 Oconee 13 Oglethorpe 2 Peach 2 Pickens 1 Pierce 4 Pike 3 Polk 2 Pulaski 8 Quitman 1 Randolph 7 Richmond 1 Schley 4 Screven 3 Seminole 3 Spalding 7 Stephens 1 Stewart 2 Sumter 3 Talbot 5 Taliaferro 2 Tattnall 6 Telfair 2 Terrell 1 Thomas 9 Tift 4 Toombs 4 Troup 4 Turner 2 Twiggs 5 Union 1 3
4 Walker 2 Walton 8 Ware 5 Warren 4 Washington 2 Wayne 10 Webster 1 Wheeler 1 Whitfield 5 Wilcox 6 Wilkes 7 Wilkinson 7 Worth 6 KENTUCKY Adair 1 Allen 1 Anderson 1 Ballard 4 Barren 1 Boone 2 Bourbon 2 Breathitt 1 Breckinridge 4 Caldwell 3 Carlisle 1 Christian 3 Clark 1 Cumberland 1 Daviess 3 Fayette 4 Fleming 2 Floyd 1 Franklin 2 Fulton 17 Graves 4 Grayson 1 Green 1 Hancock 1 Hardin 2 Harlan 1 Henderson 7 Henry 1 Hickman 1 Hopkins 3 Jessamine 1 Knott 1 LaRue 1 Laurel 1 Letcher 1 Lincoln 1 Logan 13 Marshall 1 Mason 5 McCracken 4 McLean 1 Meade 3 Mercer 1 Metcalfe 1 Montgomery 1 Nelson 3 Nicholas 3 Oldham 1 Owen 1 Scott 1 Shelby 4 Simpson 2 Spencer 1 Todd 6 Trigg 4 Union 3 Warren 5 Washington 3 Wayne 1 Webster 1 Woodford 2 LOUISIANA Acadia 1 Ascension 1 Assumption 3 Avoyelles 4 Bienville 10 Bossier 32 Caddo 54 Calcasieu 4 Caldwell 4 Catahoula 7 Claiborne 8 Concordia 7 DeSoto 4 East Baton Rouge 7 East Feliciana 5 Evangeline 2 Franklin 8 Grant 5 Iberia 23 Iberville 7 Jackson 2 Jefferson 14 Jefferson Davis 3 Lafayette 4 Lafourche 50 Lincoln 7 Livingston 1 Madison 9 Morehouse 16 Natchitoches 1 Orleans 13 Ouachita 35 Plaquemines 2 Pointe Coupee 13 Rapides 12 Red River 2 Richland 14 Sabine 1 St. Bernard 3 St. Charles 4 St. Helena 3 St. James 6 St. John the Baptist 4 St. Landry 6 St. Martin 2 St. Mary 4 St. Tammany 7 Tangipahoa 22 Tensas 40 Union 4 Washington 11 Webster 9 West Baton Rouge 3 West Carroll 9 West Feliciana 6 Winn 2 MISSISSIPPI Adams 3 Alcorn 5 Amite 12 Attala 5 Benton 2 Bolivar 16 Calhoun 3 Carroll 6 Chickasaw 5 Claiborne 6 Clarke 9 Clay 7 Coahoma 15 Copiah 10
DeSoto 16 Forrest 9 Franklin 12 George 2 Greene 2 Grenada 5 Hancock 1 Harrison 12 Hinds 22 Holmes 9 Humphreys 8 Issaquena 9 Itawamba 1 Jackson 8 Jefferson 5 Jefferson Davis 1 Jones 6 Kemper 18 Lafayette 8 Lamar 2 Lauderdale 14 Lawrence 3 Leake 2 Lee 2 Leflore 18 Lincoln 10 Lowndes 19 Madison 7 Marion 1 Marshall 4 Monroe 14 Montgomery 9 Neshoba 3 Newton 6 Noxubee 12 Oktibbeha 6 Panola 5 Pearl River 6 Perry 1 Pike 12 Pontotoc 1 Prentiss 1 Quitman 4 Rankin 9 Scott 1 Sharkey 5 Simpson 7 Smith 8 Stone 5 Sunflower 14 Tallahatchie 10 Tate 3 Tippah 2 Tishomingo 2 Tunica 11 Union 1 Walthall 4 Warren 18 Washington 15 Wayne 1 Webster 1 Wilkinson 6 Winston 12 Yalobusha 5 Yazoo 16 NORTH CAROLINA Alamance 2 Alexander 1 Anson 2 Avery 1 Beaufort 1 Bertie 2 Bladen 1 Buncombe 3 Burke 1 Cabarrus 2 Carteret 1 Chatham 6 Cleveland 1 Craven 2 Duplin 2 Edgecombe 2 Forsyth 1 Franklin 3 Gaston 3 Granville 6 Guilford 2 Halifax 1 Harnett 1 Haywood 1 Iredell 2 Johnston 4 Lenoir 4 Mecklenburg 3 Moore 2 Nash 1 Northampton 1 Onslow 2 Pender 1 Person 1 Polk 1 Richmond 3 Rockingham 1 Rowan 7 Rutherford 1 Sampson 1 Scotland 1 Stokes 2 Union 3 Vance 2 Wake 1 Warren 2 Washington 3 Watauga 1 Wayne 2 Wilson 2 SOUTH CAROLINA Abbeville 5 Aiken 12 Allendale 4 Anderson 6 Bamberg 4 Barnwell 12 Beaufort 1 Berkeley 1 Cherokee 2 Chester 1 Chesterfield 2 Clarendon 4 Colleton 7 Dorchester 3 Edgefield 6 Fairfield 3 Florence 9 Greenville 3 Greenwood 14 Hampton 4 Jasper 1 Kershaw 4 Lancaster 2 Laurens 10 Lexington 7 McCormick 2 Newberry 1 Oconee 2 Orangeburg 5 Pickens 2 Saluda 2 5
6 Spartanburg 3 Sumter 4 Union 3 Williamsburg 3 York 10 TENNESSEE Bedford 3 Bledsoe 2 Campbell 6 Cannon 1 Carroll 4 Claiborne 1 Coffee 6 Crockett 6 Davidson 4 Decatur 2 Dickson 3 Dyer 6 Fayette 4 Franklin 3 Gibson 7 Giles 7 Hamilton 4 Hardeman 2 Hardin 2 Haywood 2 Henderson 4 Henry 2 Humphreys 1 Johnson 2 Knox 1 Lake 10 Lauderdale 8 Lawrence 3 Lewis 3 Lincoln 5 Loudon 1 Macon 1 Madison 4 Marion 1 Marshall 8 Maury 6 Meigs 1 Montgomery 1 Moore 8 Morgan 2 Obion 17 Putnam 2 Rhea 4 Roane 1 Robertson 4 Rutherford 3 Shelby 21 Smith 1 Stewart 1 Sullivan 1 Sumner 5 Tipton 1 Unicoi 1 Warren 1 Wayne 5 Weakley 5 Williamson 3 Wilson 2 TEXAS Anderson 22 Angelina 2 Austin 1 Austin 1 Bastrop 3 Baylor 1 Bell 3 Bexar 1 Bexar 1 Bosque 1 Bosque 1 Bowie 9 Brazoria 8 Brazos 7 Burleson 1 Burnet 3 Caldwell 3 Cameron 1 Camp 1 Cass 8 Cherokee 2 Collin 2 Colorado 5 Comal 1 Comanche 2 Cooke 2 Dallas 2 Delta 2 Denton 2 DeWitt 1 El Paso 1 Ellis 1 Falls 7 Fannin 1 Fayette 4 Fort Bend 1 Freestone 8 Galveston 1 Gillespie 1 Goliad 1 Gonzales 1 Grayson 1 Grayson 2 Gregg 4 Grimes 9 Guadalupe 3 Hardin 2 Harris 9 Harrison 13 Henderson 1 Hill 2 Hopkins 4 Houston 2 Hunt 3 Jackson 1 Jefferson 3 Kaufman 2 La Salle 1 Lamar 9 Lavaca 2 Lee 1 Leon 1 Leon 1 Liberty 4 Limestone 7 Madison 2 Madison 1 Marion 4 Matagorda 1 McLennan 20 Milam 4 Montgomery 7 Morris 4 Nacogdoches 2 Navarro 4 Newton 3 Nueces 2 Orange 6 Panola 4 Polk 3 Red River 6 Reeves 1 Robertson 7
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