Nearly 3,500 African

Americans and 1,300 whites

were lynched in the United

States between 1882 and

1968, mostly from 1882 to

1920.

The largest mass lynching in American history involved the lynching of

eleven Italian immigrants in New Orleans, in 1891.

During the Antebellum, assertive African Americans and Latinos

in the South West were the object of racial lynching.

Lynching increased dramatically in the aftermath of the Civil War, after slavery had been abolished and recently freed black men gained the right to

vote. 

The Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill was first introduced to United States Congress in

1918 by Republican Congressman Leonidas C. Dyer of Missouri. The bill was

passed by the United States House of Representatives in 1922.

•Passage of the Dyer Bill was blocked by white Democratic senators from the South • The Dyer Bill later influenced anti-lynching legislation, including the Costigan Wagner Bill, both blocked by Senator William Borah.

Roosevelt was also concerned about a provision of the Costigan-Wagner bill that called for the punishment of sheriffs who failed to protect their prisoners from lynch mobs. He believed political support of the white voters in the South would be lost by approving the bill and lose the 1936 presidential election.

Excerpt from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

Major Political Detail:

Currently…

An Orange, Fla., African-American family were shocked to find a KKK flier (next picture)

on their doorstep this week, reports the

Orlando Sentinel.Published on May 16, 2013

KKK Cross-Burning Photo Stripped Of First Prize At County

Fair In Ohio07/31/2013

The Nathan Bedford Forrest High School in Jacksonville, Fla., will change its name from that of the Ku Klux Klan's first grand wizard at the start of the next school year in August 2014.

Confederate Gen .Nathan Bedford Forrest served as the first grand wizard

of the Ku Klux Klan.

On January 8, 2014, the Duval County School Board voted to change Nathan B. Forrest High to Westside High, to reflect the neighborhood.

Meanwhile…the Tampa Bay Area has a haunt of its own…

John Evans-was Lynched in St.

Petersburg,Florida, on November 14,

1914

Newspaper Articles…

John Evans was lynched on Tuesday, November 12, 1914. Petersburg, Florida

The accusation of rape and murder

was the result of a voice recognition

The The crime made the

front page.

John Evans was not formally accused, he was guilty of rape and murder by association with a man named E.

B. Tobin.

The details of the crime and the city’s leader is printed on the last page along with a notice of where the victim’s

(Sherman) body is to be buried.

Photographs were taken during the lynching and the Mayor expressed it was against the law to distribute them. The

photograph surrendered the plate.

Although implicated in the double crime, Tobin sits in jail as details of the lynching along with statements of outrage make it to the last page of the paper.

Judge Robles expressed his

dissatisfaction with the lynching

In 1979, Mrs. Lulu Grant gives an account of the lynching of John Evans.