A Racial Cleansing in America (Seeing White Part 9)
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The Lynchings of the South
Between 1915 and 1920 alone, hundreds of thousands of black people moved out of the deep South to take those jobs. Seeing African Americans assert themselves in these ways didn't go over well with a lot of white people. Lynchings, which had declined in the first years of the 20th century, headed back upward during and after the war.
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