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It is baffling to me that this data is available even though lynchings were not reported by state or federal government. Even though there was a wide knowledge of lynchings, it was still illegal by law, and thus the government turned the other cheek. All of the data was collected from citizens and newspapers, who were likely related to the victims, or from the community of the victims. This data is also almost definitely under-reported which is heartbreaking in and of itself especially because the sheer number of reported lynchings was incredibly high on a weekly basis. The visualization demonstrated just how many lynchings there were by showing a near opaque red graph for 40 years until it started to dissipate around the 1920s. Once again, this was only reported data- and the graph only shows these years on the axis, but that doesn’t mean that the lynchings didn’t extend far beyond it.