<em>The option that would not have improved civil rights and race relations at the turn of the century is a lynching.</em>
Lynching is a horrendous practice where people kill others by their own means. Racist groups like the Ku Klux Kan organized public executions where they lynched African Americans. These kinds of incidents were common in the Southern States during the Reconstruction Era, after the Civil War. By no means, lynching has improved civil rights and race relations at the turn of the century.
Northern states saw slavery as cruel and agianst humanity. Southern states saw slavery as the economic backbone of their economy and felt it was necessary.
