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The Red Record: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States
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History of Some Cases of Rape
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Of the 1,115 Black men, women, and children Wells says were lynched between January 1882 and January 1894, how many were charged with rape?
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Only 348 — meaning nearly 700 were lynched for other, manufactured reasons
B
Nearly all of them, about 1,000
C
Exactly half, 557
D
None; the rape charge was never actually used before 1894
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