On this date, reports indicated that 57 African Americans had been lynched in 1905 in the United States. Lynching was a brutal and widespread form of racial terror used to enforce white supremacy and instill fear in Black communities, especially in the American South. These extrajudicial killings often occurred without trial and were used to punish perceived violations of the racial status quo.
This statistic was part of a broader national awareness, as civil rights advocates like Ida B. Wells worked tirelessly to document lynchings and push for anti-lynching legislation, though such laws were continually blocked in Congress for decades.
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