Lynching In The Nineteenth-Twentieth Century

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Lynching was a widespread and profound phenomenon that obliterated the African American populace of the southern states throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Lynching was both physically cataclysmic, and psychologically calamitous. Lynching generated a level of fear and horror that surpassed that of all other forms of violence that the African American population had endured. Lynching was a gruesome spectacle that assumed tremendous symbolic power as a result of its physically and visually sensational and performative nature. Lynchings were often witness by thousands of white spectators, with tales of torture, hanging, mutilation and burning consequently reverberating swiftly around the region, further intensifying the fear associated

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