Elf Sternberg

Very, very few civil rights murder or lynching cases involved jury nullification. In fact, most didn't even involve anyone getting prosecuted - cop or prosecutor nullification, perhaps. Those cases that did go to trial involved cops who refused to investigate or testify honestly, prosecutors who deliberately threw the case, and judges that did everything they could to ensure that the case did not end in a conviction.

Then the juries were scapegoated for the racist results of a racist proceeding.

This is proven because the federal cases almost unanimously ended in convictions - with jury pools chosen from the same districts. Yet the prosecutors, investigators and judges were very, very different.