To maintain segregation in the South, many white residents sought to make fear part of everyday life for African Americans. #APeoplesJourneypic.twitter.com/uUDQwuxeIL
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After the end of federal troop protection during Reconstruction, white southerners used lynching to terrorize: http://s.si.edu/2fODyvi pic.twitter.com/8yaRozzx6m
Lynchings were often organized by the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), but thousands of everyday citizens participated and watched.pic.twitter.com/qdyf6FQx7b
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Most victims were accused of a crime but never put on trial. Rape of white women was the most frequent unsubstantiated charge.pic.twitter.com/Ly8bBqINID
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This reinforced the idea that fear was the only way to control African Americans and force them to accept segregation and discrimination.pic.twitter.com/Jj75W91ZBM
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We will NOT go back to this.
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Amen. I will use my last breath to keep future generations free from this.
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So Difficult To Understand How Humans Believe They Can Own Other Human Beings and Use Them As Free Labor. ...Mind-boggling PURE EVIL
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They deemed us animals & property. Most believed God gave them dominion over us. Yep, it was indeed pure evil.
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Cannot believe that this happened in this country on this soil. And that there are still individuals living now that still think there was nothing wrong with this way of thinking about other human beings. I'm really sickened to the core.
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1.Think about how evil these people were. Lynching was to them a sport like soccer. How dark your heart has to be to do stuff like this?
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2. Today the same people say, "get over it, slaver ended hundreds of years ago." How pathetic.
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