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Thursday, January 5, 2023

60 People Lynched in 1922 in the South

60 Lynched Below Mason and Dixon Line

Sixty persons were lynched in states below the Mason and Dixon line in the year just ended, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People announced in a report made public here. Texas headed the list in numbers.

Of those lynched, the report state, 52 were negroes, seven white Americans and one a Mexican. Seven of the victims were alleged to have been publicly burned to death.

From the front page of The Roanoke Beacon, Plymouth, N.C., Friday, January 5, 1923

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