A new interactive map that was launched earlier this year shows the history of lynching in America from the 1830s to the late 1960s.

The map was made possible through the work of African-American sociologist Monroe Nathan Work who worked tirelessly to document every known lynching that occurred in the US starting in 1908 to the late 1930s until his death in 1945.

Work built a Department of Records while in his tenure at Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University) that collected research, according to the Monroe Work Today project.

A new interactive map that was launched earlier this year shows the history of lynching in America from the 1830s to the late 1960s

The map was made possible through the work of African-American sociologist Monroe Nathan Work who worked tirelessly to document every known lynching (pictured from the map) that occurred in the US starting in 1908 to the late 1930s until his death in 1945

The map allows users to discover the nearly 5,000 lynchings of not only African-Americans in the US, but also Chinese, Italians, Native Americans (pictured lynching information) and Latinos

The map allows users to discover the nearly 5,000 lynchings of not only African-Americans in the US, but also Chinese, Italians, Native Americans and Latinos.

Each colored point on the map gives users information about each lynching, including their recorded name, date, location and why they were lynched.

According to the website, 'it was impossible to search the web and find an accurate scope of the history of American lynching', before the research was published.

'The names have always been kept safe, but distant, in old archives and scholarly books and dissertations. This site leaves the record open for all Americans, especially high school students who want to learn more than what their textbook has to say,' according to the site.

Lynching began in the 1800s as a form of justice without evidence in local communities. It later became adopted as a terrorist tactic by white supremacists.

The map has confirmed one thing that most people have speculated: black men were the most lynched group of people among the victims.

These merciless lynchings usually were due to mob violence that came after criminal accusations.

The research has also revealed some identities and circumstances under which some women were lynched.

Each colored point on the map gives users information about each lynching, including their recorded name, date, location and why they were lynched. Pictured is the information on an unnamed Mexican male who was lynched in 1877

According to the website, 'it was impossible to search the web and find an accurate scope of the history of American lynching', before the research was published. Pictured is the information on an unnamed Chinese person who was killed in 1880