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I'm not totally opposed to listing major cities in the lead, I just want to make sure the lead doesn't get to long to ensure this article retains its GA status. Tennessee currently has five cities that are usually considered primary, as well as the Tri-Cities area, which function similar to a major city. Including all of those in the lead could get excessive and problematic. Bneu2013 ( talk) 19:24, 2 February 2022 (UTC)
Given that Tennessee had 251 lynchings (204 of them black people) during the decades after the Civil War (and before the Civil Rights movement), that makes Tennessee 8th in the number of known lynchings in the U.S., and only some other Southern states have higher numbers than that. Thus, it is an embarrassment that the Reconstruction section does not mention lynching at all. Note that states farther removed from the South had no known lynchings at all, or only a very small number, before anti-lynching laws put a stop to the practice. I tried to add this statistic to the article but it was reverted immediately by someone who claimed that it needed to be omitted lest the article becomes too long. At present, however, the section on Reconstruction reads as if it were being sanitized by the Chamber of Commerce. Would one of you who regularly monitor this page please look into the matter, and if you can't find it within your conscience to actually list the number of lynchings that occurred in Tennessee, then at least put a sentence in the Reconstruction section pointing off to Wikipedia's excellent article on Lynching_in_the_United_States, and maybe also to List_of_lynching_victims_in_the_United_States. I grew up in Tennessee and love the state, but this continual denial of what happened during those violent decades after the Civil War is frankly embarrassing. Harborsparrow ( talk) 18:32, 9 September 2023 (UTC)
', Olive!". Harborsparrow ( talk) 12:34, 15 September 2023 (UTC)
What is the average rainfall 2600:1700:BC60:2290:58CB:8F91:1769:BC54 ( talk) 02:00, 21 March 2024 (UTC)
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I'm not totally opposed to listing major cities in the lead, I just want to make sure the lead doesn't get to long to ensure this article retains its GA status. Tennessee currently has five cities that are usually considered primary, as well as the Tri-Cities area, which function similar to a major city. Including all of those in the lead could get excessive and problematic. Bneu2013 ( talk) 19:24, 2 February 2022 (UTC)
Given that Tennessee had 251 lynchings (204 of them black people) during the decades after the Civil War (and before the Civil Rights movement), that makes Tennessee 8th in the number of known lynchings in the U.S., and only some other Southern states have higher numbers than that. Thus, it is an embarrassment that the Reconstruction section does not mention lynching at all. Note that states farther removed from the South had no known lynchings at all, or only a very small number, before anti-lynching laws put a stop to the practice. I tried to add this statistic to the article but it was reverted immediately by someone who claimed that it needed to be omitted lest the article becomes too long. At present, however, the section on Reconstruction reads as if it were being sanitized by the Chamber of Commerce. Would one of you who regularly monitor this page please look into the matter, and if you can't find it within your conscience to actually list the number of lynchings that occurred in Tennessee, then at least put a sentence in the Reconstruction section pointing off to Wikipedia's excellent article on Lynching_in_the_United_States, and maybe also to List_of_lynching_victims_in_the_United_States. I grew up in Tennessee and love the state, but this continual denial of what happened during those violent decades after the Civil War is frankly embarrassing. Harborsparrow ( talk) 18:32, 9 September 2023 (UTC)
', Olive!". Harborsparrow ( talk) 12:34, 15 September 2023 (UTC)
What is the average rainfall 2600:1700:BC60:2290:58CB:8F91:1769:BC54 ( talk) 02:00, 21 March 2024 (UTC)