What the Hell Had to Do With Anything?

Lynching is best seen as a sort of non state of o auxiliary to jim crow, the civilian side of the enforcement of white sopremacis laws. Lynchings peak was probably in the 18 nineties, but it continued to be a massive problem. Victims were usually tortured to extract confessions um, and the crowd generally took souvenirs and posed with the body of the murdered black person. These were often family gatherings that were announced on the radio.