1913…………………… 48 1 47 1914…………………… 54 5 49 1915…………………… 96 43 53 1916…………………… 58 7 51 1917…………………… 50 2 48 1918…………………… 67 4 63  

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  3,224 702 2,522

* Victims of the Atlanta, Ga. (1906), and East St. Louis, Ill. (1917), riots have been excluded from this and subsequent tables.

Since 1889 eleven white and fifty Negro women have been lynched. In this period 2,834 lynchings took place in the South, 219 in the North, 156 in the West and 15 in Alaska and places unknown. The Negroes lynched were 78.2 per cent of the total. The following were the crimes charged against the victims in a “low year”:

LYNCHINGS IN 1911

Murder………………………………………………..	36
Rape………………………………………………..	7
Attempted rape………………………………………………..	7
Suspected rape………………………………………………..	1
Insulting women………………………………………………..	4
Assault to kill………………………………………………..	3
“Prejudice”………………………………………………..	2
Threats	1
“Desperado” …………………………………………..	1
Robbery ………………………………………………..	1
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The following abstracts from Thirty Years of Lynching show the variety of attacks: