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Of, quote, racial terror lynchings. that was their term, racial terror lynchings. this was just in 12 southern states and only from 1877 to 1950. there were more in other states during those years that were not counted in that study. and then there were the murders during the civil rights movement of the 1950s, and the 1960s, including the assassination of dr. martin luther king jr. in 1968. heather heyer takes her place in history now beside the names goodman, schwerner, and cheney, the three civil rights workers murdered in 1964. andrew goodman and michael schwarner were new yorkers who responded to the call to go south where they joined with mississippi civil rights worker james cheney in trying to help black people to register to vote. that was enough to get you ....
Of years. we don t know the number of slaves that they murdered. we don t know the number of free white people who were too sympathetic to slaves who they murdered. white supremacists have been trying to win through terrorism and murder throughout the history of the united states. two years ago the equal justice initiative in alabama released a study that counted 3,959 victims of, quote, racial terror lynchings. that was their term, racial terror lynchings. this was just in 12 southern states and only from 1877 to 1950. there were more in other states during those years that were not counted in that study. and then there were the murders during the civil rights movement of the 1950s, and the 1960s, ....