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...thanks to Adi Ignatius, who organized and edited this year's installment, and the main members of his team: Marti Golon, Jay Colton, Barbara Maddux, Dietmar Liz-Lepiorz and Avi Litwack. And please be sure to visit TIME.com for more details about the TIME 100 and why we picked the ones...
...Confederacy, blacks who were suspected of crimes against whites--or even "offenses" no greater than failing to step aside for a white man's car or protesting a lynching--were tortured, hanged and burned to death by the thousands. In a prefatory essay in Without Sanctuary, historian Leon F. Litwack writes that between 1882 and 1968, at least 4,742 African Americans were murdered that...