Lynchings and Racial Terror in Pre-Civil War Washington County, Arkansas J. B. Hogan After the Civil War, lynchings, primarily of African Americans and typically done by mobs of white people, were common. From 1877-1950, nearly four thousand African Americans were lynched in the United States, some five hundred taking place in Arkansas.[1] It is somewhat … [Read more...] about Lynchings and Racial Terror in Pre-Civil War Washington County, Arkansas