Public Executions and Lynchings of Black Men in the Jim

question 99

Multiple Choice

Public executions and lynchings of black men in the Jim Crow South were

• A) retaliation for violent crimes against whites.
• B) designed to intimidate African Americans to accept second-class status.
• C) done to scare blacks into moving out of the South.
• D) a way to force blacks back into slave-like labor.
• E) All of these

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