The historian David M. Oshinsky notes in his book "Worse Than Slavery": Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice that from 1900 to 1930, African Americans in Mississippi "comprised about 67 percent of the killers in Mississippi and 80 percent of the victims.
( Ta-Nehisi Coates )
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