Number of Lynchings Has Almost Doubled, 63 in 1921

63 Lynchings During Year. . . Report Made Public Today—Four in North Carolina During 1921

By Associated Press

Sixty-three persons were lynched in the United States this year, as compared with 35 in 1920, said a statement issued today by the Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

Four were publicly burned alive; five were burned after death. Two lynching victims were women—one in Georgia and the other in Mississippi. And six victims of the mobs were white men, the statement said.

It attributed 13 lynchings each to Georgia and Mississippi; six each to Texas and Arkansas; 5 each to Florida, Louisiana and South Carolina; four to North Carolina; two to Alabama; and 1 each to Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia.

Murder was assigned as the cause for 18 of the reported lynchings and 19 were attributed to alleged assaults on women.

From The New Bern Sun-Journal, Dec. 31, 1921