1. Nearly 3,500 African Americans and 1,300 whites were lynched in the United States between 1882 and 1968, mostly from 1882 to 1920.

2. The largest mass lynching in American history involved the lynching of eleven Italian immigrants in New Orleans, in 1891.

3. During the Antebellum, assertive African Americans and Latinos in the South West were the object of racial lynching.

4. Lynching increased dramatically in the aftermath of the Civil War, after slavery had been abolished and recently freed black men gained the right to vote.

5. The Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill was first introduced to United States Congress in 1918 by Republican Congressman Leonidas C. Dyer of Missouri. The bill was passed by the United States House of Representatives in 1922.

6. Passage of the Dyer Bill was blocked by white Democratic senators from the South The Dyer Bill later influenced anti-lynching legislation, including the Costigan Wagner Bill, both blocked by Senator William Borah.

7. Roosevelt was also concerned about a provision of the Costigan-Wagner bill that called for the punishment of sheriffs who failed to protect their prisoners from lynch mobs. He believed political support of the white voters in the South would be lost by approving the bill and lose the 1936 presidential election. Excerpt from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress Major Political Detail:

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12. Confederate Gen.Nathan Bedford Forrest served as the first grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.

13. On January 8, 2014, the Duval County School Board voted to change Nathan B. Forrest High to Westside High, to reflect the neighborhood.

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17. John Evans was lynched on Tuesday, November 12, 1914. Petersburg, Florida. PetersburgFlorida The accusation of rape and murder was the result of a voice recognition The The crime made the front page.

19. John Evans was not formally accused, he was guilty of rape and murder by association with a man named E. B. Tobin.

20. Photographs were taken during the lynching and the Mayor expressed it was against the law to distribute them. The photograph surrendered the plate.

21. Although implicated in the double crime, Tobin sits in jail as details of the lynching along with statements of outrage make it to the last page of the paper. Judge Robles expressed his dissatisfaction with the lynching

25. In 1979, Mrs. Lulu Grant gives an account of the lynching of John Evans.