Editing Sabine County, Texas (section)

==History==
Like other eastern Texas counties, Sabine was originally developed as cotton plantations, which depended on the labor of numerous enslaved African Americans. After the Civil War and emancipation, many [[freedmen]] remained in the rural area, working as tenant farmers and sharecroppers. There was considerable violence by whites against blacks during and after Reconstruction. After 1877 and through the early 20th century, Sabine County had 10 [[Lynching in the United States|lynchings of blacks]] by whites in acts of racial terrorism. This was the fourth-highest total in the state, where lynchings took place in nearly all counties through this period.<ref>[https://eji.org/sites/default/files/lynching-in-america-third-edition-summary.pdf ''Lynching in America, Third Edition: Supplement by County''], pp. 9-10, Equal Justice Initiative, [[Mobile, Alabama]], 2017.</ref>

From 1930 to 1970, the population declined as many African Americans left this rural county and other parts of the South in the [[Great Migration (African American)|Great Migration]] to escape [[Jim Crow]] oppression and seek better jobs, especially in Northern industrial cities and on the West Coast, where the defense industry built up during World War II.{{citation needed|date=November 2022}}