Reported Number of Black Victims of Lynching 

(According to Research by the Tuskegee Institute)

1882 to 1889: 534
1890 to 1899: 1,132
1900 to 1909: 791
1910 to 1919: 568
1920 to 1929: 281²⁰

Since 1882, the year in which the highest number of Black victims of lynching were reported: 1892 (161 lynchings reported)²¹

Politics

Number of Democrats elected to the presidency between 1860 and 1912: one (Grover Cleveland in 1884 and again in 1892)

In 1896, estimated number of Blacks registered to vote in Louisiana: 130,000
In 1904, estimated number of Blacks registered to vote in Louisiana: 1,342²²

In 1910, estimated number of African Americans residing in the ex-Confederate states of the South: 7 million
In 1910, estimated number of African Americans residing outside of the ex-Confederate states of the South: less than 1 million²³