![]() They would even take their body parts as souvenirs. They would have postcards showing the dead bodies of the people they executed. The thing that made it REALLY sick is that the communities often turned these into events. ![]() They were accused of awful crimes even if it wasn’t remotely true, and they were convicted in public and executed. For instance if a black man bumped into a white woman she could accuse him of rape, and her family would hunt him down and kill him. ![]() There were many unspoken rules and violation could result in death. Jim Crow laws made it very difficult to exist in society as an African American. Lynchings were common throughout the country and they usually involve led mob violence against a person of color. ![]() But it is a big issue in this period in the North and South. This paragraph is going to be a little graphic so consider this a warning if you don’t want to see it. ![]()
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