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  • It's estimated that 4,743 Americans were lynched between 1882 and 1968. A large majority of those victims were black.
    Culture
    Tracing The Story Of 'Lynch Mob'
    Lakshmi Gandhi
    Last week, the CEO of AIG invoked the phrase "lynch mob" to compare the vitriolic reaction his company received about its employees' 2009 bonuses. Lynching was so common that a writer even referred to it being as "American as apple pie."