Firearms and lynching

MD Makowsky, PL Warren - The Journal of Law and …, 2023 - journals.uchicago.edu
We assess firearms as a means of Black residents' self-defense in the Jim Crow South. We
infer access to firearms by race and place by measuring the fraction of suicides committed …

[PDF][PDF] Firearms and Violence Under Jim Crow

MD Makowsky, PL Warren - 2020 - ostromworkshop.indiana.edu
We assess firearm access in the US South across the 20th century by measuring the fraction
of suicides committed with firearms. Black residents of the Jim Crow South were disarmed …