On this date, reports indicated that 67 African Americans were lynched in the United States during the year 1910. Lynching was a brutal form of racial terror used primarily in the South to enforce white supremacy and instill fear within Black communities. These extrajudicial killings were often carried out publicly and without legal consequence for the perpetrators.
Organizations like the NAACP, founded just the year prior in 1909, began working to bring national and international attention to these atrocities. The fight against lynching would become a cornerstone of the early civil rights movement.
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