Equal Justice Initiative
Lynching in America:
Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror
County Data Supplement
This supplement presents the numbers of documented A frican A merican victims of racial terror
lynching killed in the United States between 1877 and 1950, per county/parish. This data was
compiled as part of the Equal Justice Initiative’s narrative report, Lynching in America:
Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror. In addition to reviewing this data, we encourage you to
read the full report, explore the interactive map, and browse the report website featuring additional
resources.
We also invite you to leam more about this history and its continuing impact by visiting the
National Memorial for Peace and Justice and the Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass
Incarceration in Montgomery, Alabama.
- Equal Justice Initiative Staff
Updated February 2020
Lynching in America - Equal Justice Initiative
Documented African American Racial Terror Lynching
Victims, 1877-1950, per County/Parish
Updated February 2020
ALABAMA
‘County Total County Total ‘County Total
Autauga 4 Baldwin 1 Barbour 6
Bibb 11 Blount 3 Bullock 3
Butler 13 Calhoun 3 ‘Chambers 2
(Cherokee 2; Chilton 12 Choctaw 7
Clarke 6 Clay 1 ‘Cleburne 2
Coffee 3 Colbert ll ‘Coosa 2
‘Covington 6 Crenshaw 4 Dale 2
Dallas 19 Elmore 14 Etowah 1
Franklin 2 Geneva 2 Hale 1
Henry 13 Houston 8 Jackson 3
Jefferson 30 Lamar 5 Lauderdale 3
(Lawrence 1 Lee 4 Limestone 3
‘Lowndes 16 Macon 1 Madison 10
Marengo 4 Marion 1 Mobile Ai
Monroe 17 Montgomery 12 Morgan 3
Perry 1 Pickens 14 Pike 4
Russell 5 Shelby 9 St. Clair Ai
Sumter 8 Talladega 4 Tallapoosa 4
Tuscaloosa 10 Walker 4 Washington 3
Wilcox 4
Lynching in America - Equal Justice Initiative
Documented African American Racial Terror Lynching
Victims, 1877-1950, per County/Parish
Updated February 2020
ARKANSAS
‘County Total County Total ‘County Total
Arkansas 18 Ashley 10 Boone 2
Bradley 4 Calhoun 10 Chicot 3
Clark 6 Cleveland 3 ‘Columbia 3.
Conway 4 Craighead 5 Crittenden 8
Cross 2 Desha 9 Drew 8
Faulkner 2 Garland 3 Grant 2
Hempstead 6 Hot Spring 1 Howard 4
Jackson 3 Jefferson 7 Johnson 2
Lafayette 6 Lee 15 Lincoln 6
Little River 11 Logan 1 Lonoke 11
Miller 6 Mississippi 7 Monroe 12
Nevada 2 Ouachita 11 Phillips 245
Poinsett 2 Polk 1 Pope 2
Prairie 2 Pulaski 5 Sebastian 1
Sevier 5 St. Francis 6 Stone 1
Union 4 White 3 Woodruff 2:
CALIFORNIA
‘County Total
Kern 2;
Lynching in America - Equal Justice Initiative
Documented African American Racial Terror Lynching
Victims, 1877-1950, per County/Parish
Updated February 2020
COLORADO
‘County Total County Total ‘County Total
Lincoln 1 Otero 1 Ouray 1
Pueblo 1 San Juan 1
DELAWARE
‘County Total
New Castle 1
FLORIDA
‘County Total County Total ‘County Total
Alachua 18 Baker 7 Bay 2
Bradford 5 Brevard 1 Broward 1
Calhoun 4 Charlotte 1 Citrus 7
Clay 1 Collier 1 Columbia 20
DeSoto 3 Duval ie Escambia 6
Franklin 2; Gadsden 4 Hamilton 6
Hardee 1 Hendry 1 Hernando 13
Hillsborough 5 Holmes 7 Jackson 9
Jefferson 1 Lafayette 13 Lake 4
Lee 2 Leon 4 Levy 8
Liberty 1 Madison 14 Manatee 6
Marion 19 Miami-Dade 3 Orange 33
Palm Beach 2 Pasco 6 Pinellas 2
Polk 20 Putnam 3 Santa Rosa 3
Seminole 2 St. Johns 1 Sumter 3
Suwannee 12 Taylor 15 Volusia 5
Lynching in America - Equal Justice Initiative
Documented African American Racial Terror Lynching
Victims, 1877-1950, per County/Parish
Updated February 2020
FLORIDA (continued)
‘County Total County Total ‘County Total
Washington 1
GEORGIA
‘County Total County Total ‘County Total
Appling 3 Baker 10 Baldwin 2
Barrow 1 Bartow 3 Bibb 7
Bleckley 10 Brantley 2 Brooks 20
Bryan 3 Bulloch 9 Burke 3
Butts 2 Calhoun 9 ‘Camden 2
‘Candler 1 Carroll 2 Catoosa 2
‘Chatham 2 Chattahoochee 1 Chattooga 3
Clarke 1 Clay 5 Clayton 3
Clinch 2 Cobb 1 Coffee 8
Colquitt 7 Columbia 5 Cook ih
Coweta 5 Crawford 1 Crisp 6
‘Dade 2 Decatur 10 DeKalb 4
Dodge 9 Dooly 8 Dougherty 2
Douglas 1 Early 24 Echols 4
Effingham 3 Elbert 2 Emanuel 8
Fayette 5 Floyd 4 Forsyth ih
Franklin 1 Fulton 36 Glascock 1
Glynn 3 Gordon 1 Grady 2
Greene 2 Gwinnett 3 Habersham 6
Hancock 2; Haralson 1 Harris a
Henry 1 Houston 4 Irwin 5
Lynching in America - Equal Justice Initiative
Documented African American Racial Terror Lynching
Victims, 1877-1950, per County/Parish
Updated February 2020
GEORGIA (continued)
‘County Total County Total ‘County Total
Jackson 1 Jasper 10 Jefferson 3
Jenkins 7 Johnson 6 Jones 5
‘Lamar 3 Laurens 6 Lee 9
Liberty 4 Lincoln 6 Lowndes 4
Macon 2 Madison 5 Marion 3.
McDuffie 2; McIntosh 3 Meriwether 5
Miller 9 Mitchell ll Monroe 6
Montgomery 10 Morgan 2 Murray 2
Muscogee 6 Newton 1 Oconee 11
Oglethorpe 4 Peach 3 Pierce 6
Pike 3 Polk 2 Pulaski 3
Quitman 1 Randolph 7 Richmond 2
Schley 4 Screven 3 Seminole 3
Spalding 7 Stephens 1 Stewart 5
Sumter 2; Talbot 6 Taliaferro 2:
Tattnall 5 Taylor 1 Telfair 1
Thomas 8 Tift 4 Toombs 3.
Troup 3 Turner 2 Twiggs 5)
Walker 1 Walton 9 Ware 5
Warren 4 Washington 2 Wayne 9
Webster 1 Wheeler 2 Whitfield 5
Wilcox 6 Wilkes 4 Wilkinson 4
Lynching in America - Equal Justice Initiative
Documented African American Racial Terror Lynching
Updated February 2020
Victims, 1877-1950, per County/Parish
ILLINOIS
‘County Total County Total ‘County Total
Alexander 3 Cook 1 Edgar 1
Fulton 1 Lawrence 1 Macon 1
Marshall 1 Perry 1 Pulaski 1
Sangamon 2 Scott 1 St. Clair 40
Union 1 Vermilion 1
INDIANA
‘County Total County Total ‘County Total
Clark 1 Grant 2 Henry 1
Johnson 1 Knox 1 Kosciusko 1
Marion 1 Posey 5 Pulaski 1
Spencer 3 Sullivan 1 Vigo 1
KANSAS
‘County Total County Total ‘County Total
Brown 2 Cherokee 1 ‘Crawford 4
Douglas 3 Labette 2 Leavenworth 3
Miami 1 Pawnee 1 Saline 1
Shawnee
Lynching in America - Equal Justice Initiative
Documented African American Racial Terror Lynching
Victims, 1877-1950, per County/Parish
Updated February 2020
KENTUCKY
‘County Total County Total ‘County Total
Adair 1 Allen 2 Ballard 3
Barren 1 Boone 5 Bourbon 2
Breathitt 1 Breckinridge 3 Caldwell 2
Carlisle 1 Christian 3 Clark 2:
Crittenden 1 Cumberland 1 Daviess 3
Fayette 4 Fleming 2 Floyd 1
Franklin 2 Fulton 20 Gallatin 1
Graves 6 Grayson 1 Green 1
Hancock 1 Hardin 3 Harlan 1
Harrison 2; Hart 2 Henderson 4
Henry 4 Hickman 1 Hopkins 2
Jessamine 2 Knott 1 Knox 1
‘LaRue 1 Lincoln 1 Livingston 1
‘Logan 12 Marion 2 Marshall 3
Mason 4 McCracken 5 McLean 1
Meade 3 Metcalfe 1 Montgomery 1
Nicholas 3 Ohio 1 Oldham 1
Owen 1 Scott 1 Shelby 6
Simpson 3 Spencer 1 Todd 7
Trigg 3) Union 3 Warren 4
Washington 2 Wayne 1 Webster 1
Whitley 1 Woodford 2
Lynching in America - Equal Justice Initiative
Documented African American Racial Terror Lynching
Updated February 2020
Victims, 1877-1950, per County/Parish
LOUISIANA
Parish Total Parish Total Parish Total
Acadia 1 Allen 2 Ascension 1
Assumption 3) Avoyelles 4 Bienville 10
Bossier 26 Caddo 48 Calcasieu 4
Caldwell 5 Catahoula 8 Claiborne 10
‘Concordia 16 DeSoto 4 East Baton Rouge 2
East Feliciana 6 Evangeline 5 Franklin 6
Grant 6 Iberia 26 Iberville 9
Jackson 4 Jefferson ll Jefferson Davis 3
Lafayette 6 Lafourche 52 Lincoln 8
Livingston 2 Madison 12 Morehouse 16
Natchitoches 2 Orleans 15 Ouachita 38
Plaquemines 1 Pointe Coupee ll Rapides 10
Red River 2; Richland 13 Sabine 1
St. Bernard 3 St. Charles 3 St. Helena 3
St. James 6 St. John the Baptist 4 St. Landry 8
St. Martin 2 St. Mary 4 St. Tammany 8
Tangipahoa 24 Tensas 29 Union 5
Washington 12 Webster 9 West Baton Rouge 3
West Carroll 9 West Feliciana He Winn 1
Lynching in America - Equal Justice Initiative
Documented African American Racial Terror Lynching
Victims, 1877-1950, per County/Parish
Updated February 2020
MARYLAND
‘County Total County Total ‘County Total
Allegany 1 Anne Arundel 4 Baltimore 1
Calvert 1 Carroll 1 Frederick 3.
Harford 1 Howard 2 Kent 1
Montgomery 3) Prince George’s 2 Queen Anne’s 1
Somerset 4 St. Mary’s 1 Wicomico 3
MICHIGAN
‘County Total
St. Clair 1
MINNESOTA
‘County Total
St. Louis 3
MISSISSIPPI
‘County Total County Total ‘County Total
Adams 3 Alcorn 5 Amite 14
Attala 5 Benton 3 Bolivar 13
Calhoun 2; Carroll 29 Chickasaw 6
Claiborne 4 Clarke 10 Clay 8
Coahoma 13 Copiah 10 ‘DeSoto 10
Forrest 9 Franklin 13 George 2
Greene 1 Grenada 7 Hancock 2
Lynching in America - Equal Justice Initiative
Documented African American Racial Terror Lynching
Victims, 1877-1950, per County/Parish
Updated February 2020
MISSISSIPPI (continued)
‘County Total County Total ‘County Total
Harrison 10 Hinds 22 Holmes 11
‘Humphreys 10 Issaquena 6 Itawamba 1
Jackson 8 Jefferson 4 Jefferson Davis 1
Jones 5 Kemper 24 Lafayette 7
Lamar 1 Lauderdale 16 Lawrence 6
Leake 2; Lee 2 Leflore 48
Lincoln 10 Lowndes 20 Madison a
Marion 2 Marshall 4 Monroe 14
Montgomery 9 Neshoba 5 Newton 6
Noxubee 10 Oktibbeha 6 Panola 4
Pearl River 3 Perry 2 Pike 13
Pontotoc 1 Prentiss 1 Quitman 9
Rankin 9 Scott 13 Sharkey 6
Simpson 8 Smith 8 Stone a
Sunflower 12 Tallahatchie 12 Tate 9
Tishomingo 4 Tunica 10 Union 1
Walthall 4 Warren 14 Washington 13
Wayne 1 Webster 2 Wilkinson 9
Winston 11 Yalobusha 4 Yazoo 18
MISSOURI
‘County Total County Total ‘County Total
Barry 1 Bates 1 Boone 2
[Buchanan 1 Butler 2 Callaway 4
(Cape Girardeau 1 Clay 2 Clinton 1
Lynching in America - Equal Justice Initiative
Documented African American Racial Terror Lynching
Victims, 1877-1950, per County/Parish
Updated February 2020
MISSOURI (continued)
‘County Total County Total ‘County Total
Franklin 1 Greene 3 Howard 5
Tron 1 Jackson 1 Jasper 1
Lafayette 2 Lawrence 3 Macon 2
Mississippi 4 New Madrid 2 Nodaway 1
Pemiscot 3 Pike 5 Platte 1
Ralls 1 Randolph 3 Ray 1
Reynolds 1 Saline 1 Scott 1
St. Louis 1 Wayne 1
MONTANA
‘County Total County Total
Cascade 1 Roosevelt 1
NEBRASKA
‘County Total County Total ‘County Total
Cherry 1 Douglas 2 Otoe 2
NEW JERSEY
‘County Total
Monmouth 1
Lynching in America - Equal Justice Initiative
Documented African American Racial Terror Lynching
Victims, 1877-1950, per County/Parish
Updated February 2020
NEW YORK
‘County Total
Orange 1
NORTH CAROLINA
County Total County Total ‘County Total
‘Alamance 1 Anson 2 Avery 1
Beaufort 1 Bertie 2 Bladen 1
Buncombe 3 Burke 2 Cabarrus 2
Camden 1 Carteret 1 Caswell 1
Chatham 6 Cleveland 1 ‘Craven 2
Davidson 1 Edgecombe 2 Franklin 3
Gaston 3 Granville 6 Greene 1
Guilford 1 Halifax 2 Haywood ih
Hertford 1 Iredell 3 Johnston 4
Jones 1 Lenoir 1 Macon 1
Mecklenburg 2 Moore 2 Nash ih
New Hanover 22 Northampton 1 Onslow 2
Orange 1 Pender 1 Person 1
Polk 1 Richmond 2 Rockingham 2
Rowan 6 Rutherford 1 Sampson 2
Scotland 1 Stokes 2 Union 3
Vance 2 Wake 1 Warren 2
Washington 3 Watauga 1 Wayne 2
Wilson 2
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Documented African American Racial Terror Lynching
Updated February 2020
Victims, 1877-1950, per County/Parish
NORTH DAKOTA
‘County Total
Grand Forks 1
OHIO
‘County Total County Total ‘County Total
Adams 1 Clermont 1 Erie 1
Athens 1 Coshocton 1 Holmes 1
Butler 2 Crawford 1 Lawrence 1
‘Champaign 1 Cuyahoga 1 Logan 1
Clark 1 Darke 1
OKLAHOMA
‘County Total County Total ‘County Total
Blaine 1 Bryan 3 ‘Caddo 1
Comanche 1 Creek 1 Garvin 2
Grady 2 Grant 1 Hughes 2
Latimer 1 Lincoln 1 Marshall 1
McClain 1 McCurtain 3 McIntosh 2
Nowata 2 Okfuskee 2 Oklahoma 3
Okmulgee 1 Osage 1 Pawnee 1
Pottawatomie 1 Seminole 1 Sequoyah 1
Tulsa 36 Wagoner 3 Woodward 1
Lynching in America - Equal Justice Initiative
Documented African American Racial Terror Lynching
Victims, 1877-1950, per County/Parish
Updated February 2020
OREGON
‘County Total
Coos 1
PENNSYLVANIA
‘County Total County Total
‘Chester 1 Monroe 1
SOUTH CAROLINA
‘County Total County Total ‘County Total
Abbeville 5 Aiken 13 Allendale 2
Anderson 5 Bamberg 4 Barnwell 15
Beaufort 1 Charleston 4 (Cherokee 3
‘Chester 1 Chesterfield 2 Clarendon 4
Colleton 10 Dorchester 3 Edgefield 6
Fairfield 3) Florence 9 Georgetown 1
Greenville 4 Greenwood 15 Hampton 6
Kershaw 3 Lancaster 2 Laurens 11
‘Lexington 8 McCormick 1 Newberry 5
Oconee 5 Orangeburg ll Pickens 4
Saluda 2 Spartanburg 2 Sumter 3
Union 4 Williamsburg 3 York 9
Lynching in America - Equal Justice Initiative
Documented African American Racial Terror Lynching
Victims, 1877-1950, per County/Parish
Updated February 2020
SOUTH DAKOTA
‘County Total
Meade 1
TENNESSEE
‘County Total County Total ‘County Total
Bedford 5 Bledsoe 2 ‘Campbell 3
‘Cannon 1 Carroll 4 ‘Cheatham 1
(Claiborne 3 Coffee 8 Crockett 6
Davidson 4 Decatur 2 Dickson 2
‘Dyer 7 Fayette 2 Franklin 3
Gibson 6 Giles 6 Hamilton 4
Hardeman 1 Hardin 2 Haywood 4
Henderson 3 Henry 2 Humphreys ih
Jefferson 1 Johnson 1 Knox 4
Lake 13 Lauderdale 8 Lawrence 1
Lewis Lincoln 5 Loudon 1
Macon 1 Madison 3 Marshall 8
Maury 5 Meigs 1 Montgomery 1
Moore 8 Morgan 3 Obion 16
Putnam 2; Rhea 6 Roane 1
Robertson 11 Rutherford 4 Shelby 20
Smith 1 Stewart 3 Sullivan ih
Sumner 5 Tipton 3 Unicoi 1
Warren 1 Wayne 1 Weakley 6
Williamson 5 Wilson 1
Lynching in America - Equal Justice Initiative
Documented African American Racial Terror Lynching
Victims, 1877-1950, per County/Parish
Updated February 2020
TEXAS
‘County Total County Total ‘County Total
Anderson 22 Angelina 2 Atascosa 1
Austin 2 Bastrop 2 Baylor 1
Bee 1 Bell 2 Bosque 2
Bowie 8 Brazoria 5 Brazos 6
Burleson 1 Burnet 1 Caldwell 3
‘Camp 1 Cass 9 Cherokee 2
Collin 1 Colorado We ‘Comal 1
Comanche 2 Cooke 2 Coryell 1
Dallas 2 Delta 3 Denton 2
DeWitt 1 Ellis 1 Falls 7
Fannin 1 Fayette 1 Fort Bend 4
Freestone 9 Galveston 1 Grayson 2
Gregg 4 Grimes 9 Hardin 2
Harris 4 Harrison 14 Henderson 1
Hill 2 Hopkins 5 Houston 2
Hunt 3 Jasper 1 Jefferson 1
Karnes 1 Kaufman 2 La Salle 1
Lamar 7 Lavaca 3 Lee 1
‘Leon 2 Liberty 2 Limestone 4
Madison 3) Marion 4 Matagorda 1
McLennan 15 Milam 5 Montgomery 6
Morris 3 Nacogdoches 3 Navarro 5)
Newton 3) Nueces 2 Orange 5
Panola 3 Polk 3 Red River 6
Lynching in America - Equal Justice Initiative
Documented African American Racial Terror Lynching
Victims, 1877-1950, per County/Parish
Updated February 2020
TEXAS (continued)
‘County Total County Total ‘County Total
Reeves 1 Robertson 8 Rockwall 2
Runnels 1 Rusk 5 Sabine 10
San Augustine 1 San Jacinto 1 Shelby 2
Smith 3 Tarrant 1 Taylor 1
Throckmorton 1 Titus 1 Travis 3.
Trinity 1 Tyler 6 Upshur 3
Val Verde 1 Walker 6 Waller 8
Washington 5 Wharton 5 Williamson 2
Wood 2; Zavala 1
UTAH
‘County Total County Total
‘Carbon 1 Salt Lake 1
VIRGINIA * = Independent City
‘County Total County Total ‘County Total
Accomack 1 Alexandria City* 2 Alleghany 3
Amelia 1 Amherst 2 Bath 1
Bland 1 Brunswick 2 ‘Campbell 1
Charles City* 1 Charlotte 2 Charlottesville City* 1
Culpeper 2 Danville City* 5 Dinwiddie 1
Essex 1 Fauquier 2 Fluvanna 1
Franklin 1 Frederick 1 Halifax 3
Henry 1 King and Queen 1 King William 1
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Documented African American Racial Terror Lynching
Victims, 1877-1950, per County/Parish
Updated February 2020
VIRGINIA (continued) * = Independent City
‘County Total County Total ‘County Total
‘Loudoun 3 Louisa 1 Mecklenburg 2
Nelson 2 Newport News City* | 3 Norfolk City* 1
Northumberland 1 Nottoway 2 Page 2
Pittsylvania 1 Prince Edward 1 Prince George 1
Rappahannock 1 Roanoke 2 Rockingham 1
Russell 3 Scott 1 Smyth 1
Surry 1 Sussex 2 Tazewell 7
Virginia Beach City*| 1 Wise 3 Wythe 3
WASHINGTON, D.C.
Jurisdiction Total
Washington, D.C. 3
WEST VIRGINIA
‘County Total County Total ‘County Total
Berkeley 1 Braxton 1 Cabell 1
Fayette 3) Greenbrier 3 Lewis 1
Logan 2 McDowell 4 Mercer 10
Mingo 1 Putnam 1 Randolph 4
Summers 1 Wetzel 3
Lynching in America - Equal Justice Initiative
Documented African American Racial Terror Lynching
Victims, 1877-1950, per County/Parish
Updated February 2020
WYOMING
‘County
Total
County Total
‘County
Total
Albany
Goshen 1
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