Jim Crow Inside the South Jim Crow Outside the South Jim Crow Violence Jim Crow Heroes Women and Jim Crow Jim Crow and the Supreme Court African-American Colleges Jim Crow Press African-American Museums and Historic Sites Sports and Jim Crow America Narratives Image Gallery Encyclopedia Join Us Do You Have Another Opinion? Let Us Know! Jim Crow Violence Violence against African Americans spread like an epidemic across the South until the 1930s, with the most extreme expressions of racism taking the form of lynchings and urban riots. During the Jim Crow era, the word lynching came to mean mob violence against African Americans, capital punishment without the sanction of law, ritualized torture, and explosive race riots that erupted in nearly every part of the country. More often than not the alleged crimes committed by lynching victims were trumped up and even imaginary. This map depicts a representative selection of the thousands of recorded lynchings that swept across the nation from 1889 to 1918. If you would like to add information to this map from your state, please Join Us. All teachers are paid for their contributions to the site. View some ideas for using this map, and a table of Lynching Data: 1889-1918. Read an essay on the circumstances surrounding the lynching of Emmett Till, and an essay on Urban Riots.