How Did the White Public Justify the Existence of Lynch

question 17

Multiple Choice

How did the white public justify the existence of lynch mobs?

• A)Lynch mobs were not seen as justifiable by the general public.
• B)Lynch mobs were justifiable because they supposedly did not kill many people.
• C)Black lynch mobs attacked whites in equal numbers to those blacks attacked by white lynch mobs.
• D)Lynch mobs supposedly kept white women safe from black male rapists.

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