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African-American lynching happened all over the United States. South and north—African-American lynching claimed a high percentage of victims at the same time that African-Americans were legally executed in high percentages.

African-Americans received a legal or illegal death sentence more often than European Americans who were accused of the same offenses. Common accusations resulting in death for African-Americans included rape, attempted rape, robbery, and second-degree murder. Many others were lynched—that is, accused, convicted, and executed without a trial, without rules of evidence, without a defender—for offenses such as "talking back," "looking at a white woman," or not being able to repay 10 cents interest to a white lender.
African American Lynchings



In order to enslave a people and keep them subjugated, their right to self-defense must be denied. They must be constantly terrorized, brutalized, and murdered. These tactics of suppression have been developed to a new high by vicious racists whom the United States government seems unwilling or incapable of dealing with in terms of the law of this land. Before the emancipation it was the Black man who suffered humiliation, torture, castration, and murder. Recently our women and children, more and more, are becoming the victims of savage racists whose appetite for blood increases daily and whose deeds of depravity seem to be openly encouraged by all law enforcement agencies. Over five thousand Afro-Americans have been lynched since the Emancipation Proclamation and not one murderer has been brought to justice!malcolm x - documents > program of the organization of afro-american unity