"Domestic Terror": HW for the WEEKEND

As you saw today in "The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow", terror and violence were used to sustain the Jim Crow system throughout its bloody history. We will spend class on Monday learning about the terrible history of lynchings in this country and well as the response to it.

For homework, I would like you to read the document below to gain some background information. Things to think about:
* What, constructively, could have been done to address and to stop the act of lynching in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries? Remember that lynching did not end until the 1960s (though this New York Times graphic suggests otherwise).


Lynching HW Reading

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