U.S. lynchings

number, 1880–1960

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Data Item	1880	1881	1882	1883	1884	1885	1886	1887	1888	1889	1890	1891	1892	1893	1894	1895	1896	1897	1898	1899	1900	1901	1902	1903	1904	1905	1906	1907	1908	1909	1910	1911	1912	1913	1914	1915	1916	1917	1918	1919	1920	1921	1922	1923	1924	1925	1926	1927	1928	1929	1930	1931	1932	1933	1934	1935	1936	1937	1938	1939	1940	1941	1942	1943	1944	1945	1946	1947	1948	1949	1950	1951	1952	1953	1954	1955	1956	1957	1958	1959	1960
Lynchings in the United States	150.00	150.36	150.72	151.08	151.44	151.80	152.16	152.52	152.88	153.24	153.60	147.14	140.68	134.21	127.75	121.29	114.82	108.36	101.90	95.43	88.97	86.33	83.69	81.05	78.41	75.77	73.13	70.49	67.85	65.21	62.57	59.46	56.35	53.24	50.13	47.02	43.91	40.80	37.69	34.58	31.47	29.65	27.84	26.02	24.21	22.39	20.57	18.76	16.94	15.12	13.31	12.32	11.32	10.33	9.34	8.35	7.35	6.36	5.37	4.38	3.38	3.15	2.93	2.70	2.47	2.24	2.02	1.79	1.56	1.33	1.10	1.05	1.00	0.95	0.90	0.85	0.80	0.74	0.69	0.64	0.59

Lynchings in the United States, total number. Lynching is a premeditated extrajudicial killing by a group. It is most often used to characterize informal public executions by a mob in order to punish an alleged transgressor, punish a convicted transgressor, or intimidate. In the United States, lynchings of African Americans became frequent in the South during the period after the Reconstruction era.

Source: Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature (New York: Penguin Group, 2011). Pg. 384.

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