Top 5 U.S. states with the most lynchings of black people from the 1880s

Georgia

Georgia recorded 531 lynchings during the same period (1882 to 1968), with 92 of them targeting black people. John Moody, a farmhand who, in 1901, decided to leave his white employer in Bryan County to work for another white farmer was killed by a white mob upon orders from his first employer. There was the case of Jesse Stater, who was accused of writing an “insolent letter to a white woman” and was lynched by a mob in November 1917. Another brutal murder occurred in 1918 when 21-year-old Mary Turner, a young pregnant black mother of two who was lynched by a white mob only a day after the lynching of her husband, Hazel Turner. Turner was killed for protesting against the lynching of her husband who was killed during a raid by the white mob following the murder of a white plantation owner in Brooks County by one of his black workers. There was also the Moore’s Ford Lynchings, also known as the 1946 Georgia lynching, which refers to the mass murders by a white mob of four young African Americans in Walton County.