EOTO Harmed on African Americans-Lynching

    For almost all African Americans who were growing up in the South the threat of lynching was very common. Lynching was used as an act of terror for blacks, the goal was to distill fear inside of them so they cant function in society normally. Lynching began in 1882 and lasted until around 1968. A total of 4743 lynchings occurred in the United States making this a widespread horrific justice oppressed people would endure. They were a huge flagrant public display, like the executions by guillotines in the medival times. They were often advertised in newpapers and drew large crowds of white families. Most of these lynchings took place in the South because of the end of the Civil War. Even though there were a lot of different people lynched, out of all of them 3446 were black which was approximately. 72.7%. 

    

    Even though a majority of these lynchings came from the South there were many in the West. Most of the lynchings were murderers or cattle thieves.There really was no political link to the lynching of blacks in the South, and whites in the West. The state that had the highest rate or lynchings was Mississipi at 581 but not all states did lynch people. In fact some states didn not lynch a single white or black person. These states inlcude Alaska, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Connecticut. These were states that had no lynchings from 1882-1968 which was very impressive considering all states around them could have had extremely high rates of lynching.
         

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/emmett-lynching-america/

https://www.naacp.org/history-of-lynchings/    

Reconstruction

     The reconstruction era was the time after the Civil war where the country could finally come together and unite. Blacks and whites started to see the common cause with one another. This was a unity that could get better and better. Although this was a time for the country to come together it also caused sever backlash...

   

 The backlash lasted decades, the white southerners still couldn't see blacks as equals and all they tried to do was strip them of there laws in the harshest ways possible. Not only did reconstruction leave a legacy of hope but it left a legacy of violence. Many blacks following the civil war defied there masters and fled to Union lines. Many were also enlisted in the army. By 1862 many south slaves had found safety thanks to emancipation and other laws. In some eyes, blacks enlisting into the army strengthened it, so there shouldn't have been a problem with it. Still, the white southerners had a problem with it.

`    The most important question asked at this time is "who is a citizen" whether it be free blacks or slaves there has to be an answer. 2 days after the aromatics Abraham Lincoln spoke about Reconstruction and how black veterans and soldiers deserve to be citizens. He later received threats and was assassinated. Although he was assassinated I agree with everything in that sentence. The first order of business was to reconnect slaves with there family members who had been torn away from each other. This was of big importance to the slaves as it is there family who they must see again. During reconstruction the republican party was the party who supoported civil rights. The civil war was believed to be caused by the planter class. 

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