The Equal Justice Initiative researchers have documented 4075 racial terror lynchings of African Americans between 1877 and 1950 (USA 2018)

This unit is divided into three sections: 1) lynchings, 2) the most significant race riots between 1898 and 1943 and 3) the Black response to these acts of violence (USA: Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute 2018)

Set against a backdrop of six lynching sites, the documentary film looks at this history through the eyes of community activists, scholars and the descendants of victims (30 minutes, USA: Teaching Tolerance 2018).

This website provides information about lynchings and the heroic activists who worked to publicize and stop lynching (USA: Auut Studios 2019).