Negro victims were women, three of them at the time of lynching with child.
Forty-two of the victims were burned alive. The bodies of sixteen others were burned after death. Eight of the victims were beaten to death or cut to pieces. Sixty-six of 454 lynchings, therefore, were executed with a bestiality unknown even in the most remote and uncivilized parts of the world. Of the sixty-six cases—instances of drowning or of tying the body to an automobile and dragging it through the streets are not included—four were of white victims, three burnings and one beating to death. The remaining sixty-two victims were Negroes. Thus of 416 Negroes lynched within the past ten years sixty-two, or 14.9 per cent—a little less than one out of each seven—were done to death with abnormal savagery. Four of thirty-eight white victims, or 10.5 per cent, suffered the same fate.
The states in which these exhibitions of sadism have occurred are given below in the numerical order of such events.
State Texas Georgia Florida Mississippi Arkansas Louisiana Alabama Tennessee Burnings Bodies Burned Cuttings to Total Beatings or After Death 11 8 3 4 Death 2 16 13 ITTI 8 0000 000 HAD 3 38*5** OT 2 2 1 4 2 1 1 2 -
