Course Uses Big Data to Examine how Newspapers Covered Lynchings

One of my students was reviewing a spreadsheet that listed total lynchings by state. She exhaled, and then, with a bit of weariness, said, “Mississippi, goddamn.” She was trying to comprehend the enormity of violence against the Black population of Mississippi: 823 lynchings from 1865 to 2011, according to the <a href="https://sites.uw.edu/lynching/?ref=ohfweekly.org#/home" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Tolnay-Beck and Seguin lynching inventories</a>, two of the main academic resources in this field. She is one of thirteen University of Maryland journalism students digging through <a href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn95073194/1901-08-28/ed-1/seq-2/?ref=ohfweekly.org#date1=08%2F28%2F1901&index=0&date2=08%2F28%2F1901&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=0&lccn=sn95073194&words=CRIME&proxdistance=5&state=Nebraska&rows=20&ortext=crime&proxtext=&phrasetext=&andtext=&dateFilterType=range&page=1" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">historic newspaper articles</a> and data tables this semester to learn about how U.S. newspapers covered lynchings. <a href="https://medium.com/our-human-family/course-uses-big-data-to-examine-how-newspapers-covered-lynchings-29775beb374a">Click Here</a>