Violence

-In addition to to the separate but equal law, there were other ways of enforcing the fact that blacks needed to stay in their place.
- These other ways involved violence.
- The worst of the violence was lynching.
- Lynching- the murder of an accused person by a mob without a lawful trial.
- About 1,200 blacks were lynched between 1882 and 1892.
- Sometimes the victims were suspected criminals, but mostly they were blacks who had merely overstepped their status as second-class citizens or had shown too little respect for whites.
- Lynching was a way for the whites to intimidate the blacks.
- Occurred mostly in the south, sometimes in the north.