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In her lecture "Lynch Law in all its Phases," Wells denounced the stance of the government in relation to the lynchings that were taking place in the South. What, according to her, was the government doing wrong?
A) allowing the mobs to lynch black people without punishment
B) secretly financing the mobs
C) sending troops to supervise the lynchings
D) rewarding the criminal behavior of the mobs
E) abolishing police supervision of the areas where lynchings took place
Lynch Law
describes the practice of punishment, often execution, undertaken by a mob without legal authority or due process, typically associated with racial violence in the United States.
Government Stance
An official position or policy adopted by a government on an issue.
Lynchings
Extrajudicial killings predominantly targeting African Americans, carried out by mobs with the intent of instilling fear and exerting racial control, prominent in the US South from the late 19th to mid-20th century.
- Explore the systems of racial inequity and the exclusion from electoral processes in the South subsequent to the Reconstruction period.
- Acquire insight into the legislative and social underpinnings of segregation and its impediments.
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Learning Objectives
- Explore the systems of racial inequity and the exclusion from electoral processes in the South subsequent to the Reconstruction period.
- Acquire insight into the legislative and social underpinnings of segregation and its impediments.
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