Public Executions and Lynchings of Black Men in the Jim

Multiple Choice

Public executions and lynchings of black men in the Jim Crow South were

A) retaliation for violent crimes against whites.
B) designed to intimidate African Americans to accept second-class status.
C) done to scare blacks into moving out of the South.
D) exceeding rare during the decade between 1890 and 1900.
E) prosecuted vigorously by Southern state and local legal authorities.