1892 Marks Peak Year of Lynching with 161 Black Victims Recorded

The year 1892 saw 161 Black Americans lynched, the highest single-year total recorded. Tuskegee Institute documented 3,446 Black lynchings between 1882 and 1968, with the worst years in the 1880s and 1890s. Victims were frequently burned or mutilated, and crowds of thousands attended as spectators, with photographs sold as souvenir postcards.