Lynchings

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Brendan Barry
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Let’s follow up yesterday’s good news story about measles with lynchings. The New York Times mapped and charted historical lynchings from 1877 to 1950 across 12 states in the South.

Locations of lynchings across the South, 1877–1950
Locations of lynchings across the South, 1877–1950

Credit for the piece goes to the New York Times graphics department.

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