On this date, reports confirmed that 113 African Americans had been lynched in the United States during the year 1891 alone. This horrifying figure reflects the widespread racial terror used to enforce white supremacy during the post-Reconstruction era. The Equal Justice Initiative and other historical sources document this as part of a pattern of racial violence that plagued Black communities across the South and beyond.
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