From 1882-1968, 4,743 lynchings occurred in the United States. Of these people that were lynched 3,446 were black. The blacks lynched accounted for 72.7% of the people lynched.
Out of the 4,743 people lynched only 1,297 white people were lynched. That is only 27.3%. Many of the whites lynched were lynched for helping the black or being anti lynching and even for domestic crimes.
So, over a span 86 years, 3,446 black people were lynched (many were lynched for actual crimes); that’s roughly 40/lynchings per year.
From 2003 through 2011 in Detroit, 3,313 lives were lost to homicides in Detroit. Add on another 386 homicides in 2012, and in a 10-year time period, there were 3699 homicides victims
In 10 short years, an 83 percent black city saw 3,699 lives end in violence; as the Detroit Free Press notes, “A majority of homicide victims in Detroit are African American (87.9%). Detroit's population is 83% African American. About 8.5% of the city's homicide victims are white, while white people make up 11% of Detroit's population. About 7% of the population is Hispanic.”
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/shipp/lynchingsstate.htmlhttp://www.freep.com/article/20130104/NEWS01/301040139
