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How many extrajudicial lynchings occurred in American history?
From 1882–1968, there were 4,743 lynchings. Of these, 3,446, or about 73 percent, involved black lynching victims, and 1,297, or about 27 percent, were white. This dataset comes from the Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University), a traditionally black institution.
There were also 125 black-on-black lynchings recorded between 1882 and 1903, and there were four incidents of whites being killed by black mobs. Apparently, such massive events as the Rodney King riots were excluded from the count.
Those figures clash with the accepted misunderstanding of lynchings in America, where we are falsely led to believe that lynchings were exclusively white-on-black events that were always driven by racism.
The woke left invariably weaponizes lynchings as evidence indicting whites as pathological racists, while minimizing or even ignoring the offenses that led to public outrage.
Lynchings occurred when individuals took the law into their own hands against those accused of various crimes. Such mob actions are inexcusible, though often understandable.
Among the most notorious cases were those involving Henry Smith in Texas, Jim McIlherron in Tennessee, Claude Neal in Florida, Sam Hose in Georgia, and Jesse Washington in Texas. Each event highlighted the deep-seated ‘black fatigue’ of the era while drawing attention to the persistence of black violence and the occasional reckless response, even when justified.
From the set of 73 percent that involved black victims, I’ve selected the five mentioned above, from among the most notorious.
Henry Smith (Texas, 1893): The True Green Mile
In Texas, Henry Smith, a black laborer, was charged with the murder of a three-year-old white girl named Myrtle Vance, the daughter of a local police officer, with implications of assault.
If you saw the movie, The Green Mile, you already know the woke left’s spin.
Earlier, Smith’s drunk and disorderly behavior prompted complaints. “Deputy Henry Vance was sent to arrest Smith. Smith resisted, and Vance was forced to use his club to subdue him.” [source]
Smith took revenge on Vance in a most unseemly manner: He abducted, ravaged, and murdered little Myrtle, Vance’s daughter. Contemporary accounts indicate that on January 26, 1893, the child went missing from the front of the family’s home in Paris, Texas, and her body was discovered the next day.
Witnesses said that they saw Smith “picked up little Myrtle Vance ... and ... carry her through the central portion of the city. En route through the city, several people asked him what he was doing with the child.” One of the witnesses Smith spoke to was the mayor of Paris. Smith claimed that he was taking her to her mother or the doctor. Smith returned home on Friday morning. His wife asked him about “that white child”. Smith replied: “I ain’t seen no white child and don’t have nothing to do with white folks.” Smith left and was not seen again until he was captured in Arkansas.
Smith was apprehended, returned by train, and confessed. His altercation with the officer proved motive. Add eyewitness accounts, and Smith became the lone prime suspect.
Meanwhile, a search party formed at the courthouse and set out to find little Myrtle. The child’s lifeless body was found covered by leaves in a pasture. The townspeople were furious.
Physicians Chapman and Baldwin were the examiners of the three-year-old murdered girl. They stated that the child died from wounds she suffered from being “outraged”, a more delicate word used in place of ‘rape.’ Abrasions and wounds about the rest of her body were not significant. The child’s bloody underclothes were found some feet away from the body.
An understandably irate crowd overpowered law enforcement, we are told, although it’s possible authorities put up little resistance. Smith was paraded through town on a platform. Eyewitness narratives recount how a crowd of thousands watched as he was tied to a scaffold, tortured with hot irons for nearly an hour, and finally burned alive.
The event drew crowds from surrounding areas, reflecting, again, the era’s intolerance of black-on-white violence.
Jim McIlherron (Tennessee, 1918)
Jim
McIlherron, a black male living near Estill Springs, Tennessee, shot
three white men following a “confrontation.” Two of the three died.
McIlherron claimed that, on February 8, 1918, three young white men began throwing rocks as he walked down the street, eating candy. A witness said that one of the young men followed McIlherron into a store. McIlherron thought he was threatening to start a fight, so he shot all three.
Of course he did.
Pierce Rogers died immediately, and Jesse Tigert died about twenty minutes later. Frank Tigert received care and recovered. His wounds weren’t serious. I invested some time trying to discover the kinship of the Tigerts, and found nothing. Not even chatGPT could provide an answer. I assume they were brothers.
McIlherron fled but was soon captured by a posse. According to accounts, a crowd of over 1,000 gathered as he was chained to a tree, subjected to torture with red-hot irons, and then burned alive. The incident underscored the risks white individuals endured when faced with blacks in public spaces.
Note that McIlherron reportedly came from a well-to-do household, at a time when well-to-do black households were acquired through work, diligence, and intelligence.
Claude Neal (Florida, 1934)
In Florida, Claude Neal, a 23-year-old negro farmhand, was arrested on suspicion of raping and murdering a 19-year-old white woman named Lola Cannady.
On October 18, 1934, Cannady disappeared near her home in Greenwood, and her mutilated body was found the following day. Neal was detained based on circumstantial evidence, including bloodstained clothing found at a relative’s home. Officials moved him to Alabama for safety, but a crowd abducted him from jail, and he was returned to Florida.
Period reports describe hours of torture before he was killed, with his body displayed outside the Jackson County courthouse in Marianna. The case drew national attention and exposed the inability of authorities to prevent crowd justice.
Sam Hose (Georgia, 1899)
Georgia
saw a similar horror with Sam Hose, born Samuel Wilkes, a negro farm
worker accused of murdering his white employer, Alfred Cranford, and
assaulting Cranford’s wife.
The conflict reportedly stemmed from a wage dispute in Palmetto on April 12, 1899. Hose fled, triggering an extensive manhunt fueled by newspaper coverage and public safety concerns.
Captured after eleven days, he was intercepted by a crowd in Newnan. Historical accounts describe how he was mutilated, burned alive, and dismembered, with body parts taken as souvenirs.
Jesse Washington (Texas, 1916)
Finally, in Texas, Jesse Washington, a 17-year-old teen negro, was convicted of raping and murdering Lucy Fryer, a 53-year-old white woman.
On May 8, 1916, Fryer’s body was found near her farm in Robinson, near Waco. Washington, a hired hand, signed a confession. After a trial lasting only a few hours, a crowd seized him from the courtroom. More than 10,000 spectators watched as he was tortured and burned in the town square. Photographs of the lynching were widely distributed.
Today
If extrajudicial reckoning occurred today, would these (alleged) murders have led to lynchings?
• 23‑year‑old Iryna Zarutska had come to the United States, fleeing the war in Ukraine, and was living in Charlotte, North Carolina, when she was stabbed to death on a Charlotte light rail train on August 22, 2025, in what police described as an unprovoked attack. The attack was video recorded and widely published on the internet.
• Tessa Rane Majors, 18, was a Barnard College freshman who was stabbed to death at night on December 11, 2019, in Manhattan during an attempted robbery by a group of three minors, including girls and boys aged around 13 and 14.
• 59‑year‑old John Marvin Weed was at the Great Frederick Fair in Frederick, Maryland, with his family September 20, 2019, when two negro boys (15 and 16) approached him and asked for a dollar. After he refused, the one teen was video recorded punching him in the back of the head, and the younger teen delivered a second punch that knocked him unconscious. One of the teens also spat on him after he was down. Weed died as a result, with the teens given light sentences.
• On the night of January 6, 2007, the vehicle of Channon Gail Christian and Christopher “Chris” Newsom was carjacked in Knoxville, and the couple was kidnapped at gunpoint. Reports say they were taken to a house where they were sexually assaulted, tortured, and murdered. Four black males and one black female were arrested, charged, and later convicted for their roles.
• Yoko M. Cullen, an 85-year-old Japanese woman from Collinsville, Illinois, was murdered in May 2011. Law enforcement classified her death as a homicide after her burned vehicle was found with her body in the trunk. Two black males and a black female were arrested.
• Dana Marie Kinlaw, 40, traveled on January 22, 2026, to a rural area near Effingham, South Carolina, under the belief she was meeting someone to buy a puppy. Shortly after arriving, she was shot and killed. Her body was then set on fire inside a vehicle, which was found burning by deputies responding to a fire call that evening. Again, two black males and a black female were arrested.
On the first of each month, I report on black-on-white and white-on-black homicides I find over the previous month. The January, 2026 report can be found here ►
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