Which Ohio counties appear on EJI’s online interactive lynching map and what records are linked to each county?
Executive summary
The Equal Justice Initiative’s interactive Lynching in America site documents 15 racial terror lynchings in Ohio and maps them by county [1] [2]. Public reporting and EJI materials in the packet name specific Ohio counties and describe the kinds of records and memorial materials the map links to, but the full county-by-county inventory and every linked record are available only on EJI’s interactive site and accompanying supplement [3] [4] [5].
1. What EJI says about Ohio overall
EJI’s research and the interactive map treat Ohio as a state with documented racial terror lynchings outside the Deep South, identifying Ohio as one of eight Midwestern/Upper South states where these acts were recorded and counting 15 documented lynchings in the state between 1877 and 1950 [1] [2]. EJI’s online map and its Community Remembrance Project present county-level entries so users can click into individual counties to find case records, audio, video, and contextual materials derived from the larger Lynching in America project [6] [5].
2. Counties explicitly named in the provided reporting and what’s linked to them
The documents and news items supplied here explicitly name several Ohio counties that appear in EJI’s work and describe the linked records: Adams County and Clermont County are listed in EJI’s county-by-county supplement as counties with documented Black lynching victims, each with a recorded total in the PDF supplement (Adams: 1; Clermont: 1 appears in the supplement excerpt) [4]. Coshocton County is documented on EJI’s site and in EJI reporting as the county where Henry Howard was lynched on June 19, 1885, and EJI notes that Coshocton later partnered with the organization to install a historical marker at the courthouse and to collect soil from the lynching site [7]. Butler County is explicitly named in EJI news coverage for erecting a historical marker and soil-jar memorials commemorating Simeon Garnet and Henry Corbin after EJI documented those lynchings [8]. Each of these county entries is described as connected to EJI’s research files, public-facing memorials, and the interactive map entries that provide dates, victim names where known, and community remembrance work [4] [5] [7] [8].
3. Types of records and materials the interactive map links to
EJI’s interactive map links county pins to a combination of documentary records and public-history materials: case entries drawn from the Lynching in America report and the updated supplement (count-by-county listings and victim names where available), EJI news and Community Remembrance Project pages describing historical markers and soil collections, and multimedia resources—audio interviews, videos, and lesson plans—hosted on the Lynching in America microsite [6] [4] [5]. Reporting about Coshocton and Butler counties confirms that the county pages link to memorialization efforts (historical marker text, soil-jar projects) and to the specific lynching incident summaries that EJI compiled [7] [8]. EJI’s partnership with Google expanded that content into interactive, clickable county-level story entries [9].
4. Limits of this reporting and how to get the full county list
The sources provided name several concrete county entries (Adams, Clermont, Coshocton, Butler) and repeatedly state the statewide total of 15 documented lynchings, but they do not include a complete, print-out list of all Ohio counties that appear on EJI’s interactive map within this packet [4] [1] [2]. EJI’s PDF supplement and the live interactive microsite are the authoritative sources for the full county list and for the per-county linked documents and multimedia; the supplement excerpt here shows how EJI tabulates county totals but is incomplete in the provided snippets [4]. For the exhaustive county-by-county inventory and to inspect each county’s linked records, the EJI interactive map and the downloadable supplement on EJI’s site must be consulted directly [6] [4] [5].
5. Context and caveats
EJI frames these county entries and linked records as part of truth, remembrance, and reconciliation work; its Community Remembrance Project explicitly connects the county entries to marker installations, soil collection, and public education [5]. Independent commentators have described the interactive project as making localized histories of lynching visible outside the Deep South, and press coverage notes EJI’s collaboration with Google to expand access to these county-level records [10] [9]. Where the supplied reporting names counties and memorial projects, those assertions are documented; where the packet lacks the full county roll-call and every link, that gap is acknowledged and the interactive site is the source to consult for granular verification [6] [4].