On the Same Page 2016: Just Mercy: African Americans and Criminal Justice

The goal is to accumulate a database of lynchings that took place at any date within the present borders of the United States.

From the Alabama Department of Archives and History

From the Equal Justice Initiative, this report documents multi-year investigation into lynching in twelve Southern states during the period between Reconstruction and World War II. EJI researchers documented 4075 racial terror lynchings of African Americans in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia between 1877 and 1950 – at least 800 more lynchings of black people in these states than previously reported in the most comprehensive work done on lynching to date

from the Bureau of Justice Statistics

A report from the National Urban League, Mayors against Illegal Guns and Vote Vets.org (September 2013).

The Equal Justice Initiative released this report in 2010, "the most comprehensive study of racial bias in jury selection since the United States Supreme Court tried to limit the practice in Batson v. Kentucky in 1986."