By the end of 1908, records from anti-lynching activists and institutions like the Tuskegee Institute documented that 89 Black individuals were victims of lynching in the United States that year. These extrajudicial killings were part of a widespread pattern of racial terror and violence aimed at maintaining white supremacy during the Jim Crow era. The reports helped fuel early civil rights activism, including the efforts of Ida B. Wells and others who campaigned for federal anti-lynching legislation.
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