Today is Juneteenth, the day that commemorates the date in 1865 when Texas finally freed its slaves three years after Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. That marked the end of slavery, but the beginning of a new kind of racist terrorism throughout the south.
According to a report from the Equal Justice Initiative, more than 4,000 black Americans were lynched in 20 states between 1877 and 1950. And last week, Google released an interactive map created in conjunction with EJI that shows that history.
You can look at the whole map here.
There are 233 reported lynchings in Tennessee from that period, including six in Davidson County.
