http://www.lib.unc.edu/blogs/ncm/index.php/2012/02/01/why-north-carolina-didnt-have-more-lynchings/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=why-north-carolina-didnt-have-more-lynchings Exploring the History, Literature, and Culture of the Tar Heel State Tue, 21 May 2013 13:21:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.lib.unc.edu/blogs/ncm/index.php/2012/02/01/why-north-carolina-didnt-have-more-lynchings/comment-page-1/#comment-928734 F. Simms Fri, 26 Oct 2012 20:58:30 +0000 http://www.lib.unc.edu/blogs/ncm/?p=9528#comment-928734 Most research into lynchings in North Carolina has woefully underestimated the number of such events in this state, typically ranging from 30 to 90 since the Civil War. Over the last 14 years I have documented 158 lynchings in the state during that period, and have a list of 80+ ‘possibles’ that are still being investigated. I don’t really consider that a ‘remarkably low rate of lynching’. North Carolinian scholars have been patting themselves on the back about this for many years, and need to stop doing so.

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