Number of White And Colored Persons Lynched in United States, 1889-1918*

Taken from Thirty Years of Lynching in the United States 1889-1918, Negro Universities Press, New York, 1919.

Section and DivisionTotal Number
of Lynchings
WhitePercentage
White
NegroPercentage
Black
      
UNITED STATES3,22470221.82,52278.2
      
THE NORTH21911854.410145.6
New England1110000
   Maine1110000
   New Hampshire00000
   Vermont00000
   Massachusetts00000
   Rhode Island00000
   Connecticut00000
      
Mid Atlantic8450450
   New York3266.6133.4
   New Jersey1110000
   Pennsylvania4125375
      
East North Central633353.13046.9
   Ohio12433.4866.6
   Indiana191055945
   Illinois2412501250
   Michigan4375125
   Wisconsin4410000
      
West North Central1478054.76745.3
   Minnesota4410000
   Iowa8562.5337.5
   Missouri813037.5163
   North Dakota2210000
   South Dakota131310000
   Nebraska171590210
   Kansas2211501150
      
THE SOUTH2,834425152,40985
South Atlantic862789.178490.9
   Delaware1001100
   Maryland17211.71588.3
   Virginia781115.16784.9
   West Virginia297242276
   North Carolina531222.64177.4
   South Carolina12032.511797.5
   Georgia386266.736093.3
   Florida178179.616190.4
      
District of Columbia00000
      
East South Central1,01413413.388086.7
   Kentucky1694526.712473.3
   Tennessee1963417.716282.3
   Alabama2763211.624488.4
   Mississippi373236.135093.9
      
West South Central95821321.774578.3
   Arkansas2143215.118284.9
   Louisiana3134915.826484.3
   Oklahoma966062.83637.2
   Texas3357221.926378.1
      
THE WEST15614492.3127.7
Mountain11010191.898.2
   Montana222210000
   Idaho111110000
   Wyoming342985.3514.7
   Colorado181688.8212.2
   New Mexico131184.6215.4
   Arizona8810000
   Utah00000
   Nevada4410000
      
Pacific464393.536.5
   Washington161610000
   Oregon4375125
   California262492.327.7
      
Alaska and Unknown151510000
   Alaska4410000
   Places Unknown111110000

(* Victims of the Atlanta, GA, (1906), and East. St. Louis, IL (1917), riots have been excluded from this table.)

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