NEW YORK, March 23 (Xinhua) -- Nearly 6,500 people -- mostly Black men, Black women and Black children -- were brutally murdered between 1865 and 1950 by White Americans who saw it as a way to terrorize, control and subjugate them, reported The Washington Post on Tuesday.
"Local, state and federal officials ignored, tolerated and even approved the racial violence. Lynching's stain will never -- can never -- be cleared away," said the article titled "Opinion: Why did it take so long to make lynching a hate crime?"
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