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[[File:Lynch.jpg|thumb|450px|The first victims (yellow line) were [[Republican]] [[carpetbagger]]s; once they were driven out the Democrats turned on Blacks (blue line).<br>Source: Historical Statistics of the U.S., and is based on the 1952 Negro year Book.]]
[[File:Lynch.jpg|thumb|450px|The first victims (yellow line) were [[Republican]] [[carpetbagger]]s; once they were driven out the Democrats turned on Blacks (blue line).<br>Source: Historical Statistics of the U.S., and is based on the 1952 Negro year Book.]]
'''Lynching''' refers to the assumption of extrajudicial authority, usually by [[Democrat]]s, and the fatal execution of minorities or political opponents by [[mob rule]].
'''Lynching''' refers to the assumption of extrajudicial authority, usually by [[Democrat]]s, and the fatal execution of minorities or political opponents by [[mob rule]].
Lynching attacks on [[African Americans]], especially in [[the South]], increased dramatically in the aftermath of [[Reconstruction]], after the [[Republican]]s abolished [[slavery]] and extended [[Freedmen]] the right to vote. The peak of lynchings occurred in 1892, after white [[Southern Democrats]] regained control of state legislatures.
At the turn of the 20th century, southern states passed new constitutions or [[Jim Crow]] laws which effectively disenfranchised most blacks and established [[segregation]] of public facilities by race/ Nearly 3,500 Blacks and 1,300 [[whites]] were lynched between 1882 and 1968.<ref name=tuskegee_umkc>{{cite web |url=http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/shipp/lynchingsstate.html |title=Lynchings: By State and Race, 1882–1968 |accessdate=|quote=Statistics provided by the Archives at Tuskegee Institute. |publisher=University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100629081241/http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/shipp/lynchingsstate.html |archivedate=}}</ref>
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