While looking up something else on the Internets the other day, I ran across this site quantifying America's era of lynching. I never knew that Florida "led" all states in per-capita lynchings from 1882-1930. (Mississippi had the most in raw numbers.)
Among the stated reasons people were killed: running a bordello, being obnoxious and resisting a mob. There's more on this misery, with gruesome photos, at Court TV's site.
Why didn't they tell us this in my 4th-grade Florida history class?
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