Mob Mentality In The 21st Century

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After reading and viewing the mob mentality pieces, I conclude that many violent mobs may have been started by just few people; the rest just followed. Billie Holiday’s strange fruit describes a scene where men are unfairly hanged in a tree. The hanging probably occurred because of mob mentality. Mob mentality is behavior of people when they are in a group. “The night before, on Aug. 6, 1930, they had been arrested and charged with the armed robbery and murder of a white factory worker(Beitler).” After this incident, a mob gathered outside of the jail where the men were being held. They were dragged out into the streets towards a tree. The first two were hanged, but the last, James Cameron, was spared. Lawrence Beitler’s famous photograph was

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