After reading that, I realized I've never known a historical number as it pertains to how many lynchings occured in the US.<p>The NAACP pegs the number at 4,743 total lynchings between 1882-1968. 3,446 were black, with 1,297 being white. 79% occurred in southern states.<p><a href="http://www.naacp.org/history-of-lynchings/" rel="nofollow">http://www.naacp.org/history-of-lynchings/</a>