01/02/2026
📣 READ THROUGH THE LINK IN OUR BIO 📣
Following the civil war and the end of enslavement, racial terror violence was one of many ways that white communities upheld white supremacy. They were not the acts of a few racist white people: they were a systemic tool used to keep communities of color systemically marginalized. Every level of American society was represented: from the citizens who committed these atrocities to the legal representatives who allowed perpetrators to go free (and sometimes participated themselves).
According to , there are over 4,400 documented cases of racial terror lynchings in the United States. For every recorded lynching, there are countless other victims whose names were stolen from history forever.
Our latest project seeks to catalogue every known narrative of lynching victims in the United States, name the historical influences that caused them, and show the impact of their legacy on systemic racism in the U.S. today. While there are documented victims of lynching from every race, we are primarily focusing on narratives that represent the Black diaspora. As we build capacity, we would also like to document recorded cases of lynching against Latinx and Indigenous communities as well.
A new narrative was just published: read the story of Wright Smith or one of the other four victims currently in the database by clicking the link in our bio.
This database will be continuously updated - we are aiming to add at least four new narratives in 2026.
While our capacity diminished in 2025, we are committed to giving the community the resources they need to become the change makers they want to be.
📸: A flag flying from NAACP headquarters in New York. It flew for the first time in 1936 in response to the lynching of A. L. McCamy in Dalton, Georgia.
