Research has shown a consistent link between historic lynching within a community and modern-day issues such as housing patterns or incarceration rates. In a new study, researchers from the University of South Carolina looked at the association between the history of lynching within a county and its present mortality rates.
The findings, published in the Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, show that counties with higher rates of lynching between 1877 and 1950 had slightly...
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source https://psychcentral.com/news/2018/07/30/history-of-lynching-shown-to-drive-up-current-mortality-rates/137438.html
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