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How Black cartographers put racism on the map of America (theconversation.com)
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[โ€“] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

Thats map is an incredible peice of history, great post. I'd be curious to see a more modern map made, since lynchings continued for a long time after then

[โ€“] kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago

Here we are over a century later and this map correlates very well to the states I enjoy and states I avoid.