At least a third of lynch mobs portrayed neutrally in newspapers between the 1870s - 1920s

Percent of news coverage, by decade, portraying lynch mobs as hostile, orderly or neutral.

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1800s data was removed since there were only two occurrences. Hover over each category to see percentages.

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