Public Executions and Lynchings of Black Men in the Jim

question 51

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) exceeding rare during the decade between 1890 and 1900.
• E) prosecuted vigorously by Southern state and local legal authorities.

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