Question

In the decade between 1882 and 1892, lynching rose in the South by an overwhelming 200 percent, with more than 241 black people killed. Lynching was used as a means of social control to terrorize and intimidate blacks. Which cultural myth was used to justify and legitimate the practice of white mobs lynching black people

Answer 1

The cultural myths that Whites used to lynch the Black people they did was that Black men were a danger to the security of White Women.

Why did Whites lynch Blacks?

There were several reasons but the core of them all was a hatred for the Black race and a wish to subjugate it.

They however presented this as a wish to protect White women who they said were in danger of being brutalized by Black men.

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