Between 1889 and 1922, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) counted 3,436 lynchings, a rate of two Black people each week.*10 Although this bloodlust was often characterized by mob violence, accusations of crimes, or hangings, white people would continue to implement increasingly brutal new techniques in the great American pastime of murdering Black people in bulk. Their techniques varied so widely that the NAACP* eventually came up with four distinct qualities that defined lynching.
