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A Partial Listing of Negroes Lynched in the United States Since 1859

Alabama || Arkansas || California || Delaware || Florida || Georgia || Illinois || Indiana || Iowa || Kansas || || Kentucky || || Louisiana || Maryland || Mississippi || Missouri || Nebraska || New Mexico || New York || || North Carolina || || Ohio || Oklahoma || Oregon || Pennsylvania || South Carolina || Tennessee || Texas || || Virginia || Washington || West Virginia || Wyoming

SOURCE: 100 Years of Lynching, Ralph Ginzburg, Black Classic Press; Lynching in the New South, W. Fitzhugh Brundage, University of Illinois Press  

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