Those compiled at Tuskegee Institute list 38 cases for 1917 and 62 for 1918.
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in its report _Thirty Years of Lynching_ (1919) reports 67 cases for 1918, and 325 cases for the five-year period ending with 1918, of which 304 are said to have occurred in the South.] Though mob fury has broken out on occasion in every Southern State, Maryland, West Virginia, Kentucky, and North Carolina are measurably free from such visitations.

Over considerable periods of time, Georgia comes unenviably first, followed by Mississippi, Texas, and Louisiana.
These four States have furnished a large majority of the lynchings.

The other States range between the two groups, though in proportion to the negro element in its population Oklahoma has had a disproportionate share.

It may be said that the lynchings occur chiefly in those sections or counties where the numbers of whites and negroes are nearly equal.
They are fewer in the black belt and in those counties and States where whites are in an overwhelming majority.
No man has been wise enough to propose any solution of the negro question which does not require an immediate and radical change in human nature.

As the proportion of negroes able to read and write grows larger, they will certainly demand full political rights, which the mass of the whites, so far as any one can judge, will be unwilling to allow.
Deportation to Africa--proposed in all seriousness--is impossible.