I'm being pedantic here (or something) but I just feel like pointing out that the total number of people who were considered "lynched" was around 3000 -- that covers the entire post-Civil War era. Three thousand. And not all of them were black (whites (often Jews), Indians, etc were lynched as well as Blacks).
The conventional wisdom is that an epidemic of lynching swept the country for decade after decade. Like most of this crap, the hysteria over lynching is mostly garbage.
I'm not sure how many whites are murdered by blacks every year, but it's a pretty big number. But Whites are the bad guys. It's racist to ever say anything else.
From Wikipedia:
at least 4,743 people lynched in the United States between 1882 and 1968, 3,446 of them black, 154 of them women,[3] 73 percent of them in the South.[4]
A tragedy, sure, but this number is small compared to amount of black-on-white violence we live with today. Everyone agrees that lynching was bad. Today, the black-on-white violence is often passed off as a by-product of White Racism and Oppression of Blacks -- in other words: whites deserve it.
Family stories passed down from generation to generation has it that my great-great-great grandfather was lynched in 1864 in Arkansas for being a Union sympathizer.