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Racial-Terror Lynching

EJI’s nationwide accounting, which undergirds the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, identifies Ohio as having 15 documented victims of racial-terror lynching between roughly 1877 and 1950

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How many lynchings in Ohio are named on national memorials and which victims remain unidentified?

research and for Peace and Justice record that has documented victims whose deaths are recognized on national remembrance projects (this figure is cited in EJI and multiple local reports) . Local and ...