In Her Lecture "Lynch Law in All Its Phases," Wells

question 37

Multiple Choice

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

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