Word Frequencies
This page displays the top 20 most frequent words appearing in every transcription contained in the Documenting Racial Violence in Kentucky project.
mob: 713
negro: 627
men: 441
jail: 439
county: 382
night: 302
taken: 241
morning: 233
body: 232
man: 228
said: 226
last: 187
house: 184
found: 183
shot: 178
near: 178
lynching: 177
clock: 168
went: 168
made: 161
The following is a list of words deemed important by Dr. Nikki Brown, manager of the DRVK project.
fiend: 12
brute: 21
rapist: 7
innocent: 14
murderer: 37
girl: 103
judge: 108
governor: 64
trial: 72
indecent: 3
white: 122
drunk: 4
confession: 10
tree: 120
swing: 2
bullet: 20
woman: 78
women: 24
assault: 63
wound: 13
fight: 16
farm: 36
jailer: 149
jail: 439