No one knows exactly how many lynchings took place in NC, though researchers say it was at least 100 and possibly as many as 300 in the years from 1882 to 1968. The number of lynchings per year in Southern states spiked during the period from 1890 to 1920, the same period during which the most Confederate monuments were installed. Where the victims’ remains ended up is even more complicated.
120 from NC are memorialized at the Legacy Museum and Memorial in Montgomery Alabama.
-Compiled through researching the Raleigh N&O
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