A post of mine from Hatewatch:
Great Southern,
If you want to post incendiary statistics, why not juxtapose the exact number of all the white-on-black lynchings that ever happened in America over a hundred year period next to, say, the number of black male-on-white female rapes in a single year? For good measure, throw in some of those blood curdling quotes by Bilbo and the like who predicted that the demise of segregation would throw open the gates of Hell in the South.
http://acrossdifficultcountry.blogspot.com/2005/07/more-astounding-number-that-you-wont.html
4,700 lynchings from 1865 to 1960. In contrast, the author of that post notes that blacks committed over 5,200 murders in the year 2002 alone. Anyway, many of the lynching victims had committed serious crimes. Lynchings were just mob justice. It was arguably an effective tactic, as the black crime rate skyrocketed around the time lynching ended.