Gruesome Murder
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The lynching of Jesse Washington spurned disgust across the country. Afterwards, Americans began to view such mobs as barbaric, and the number of lynchings started to decline in the late 1920s. This photograph sheds light on the attitude of the onlookers.
This file appears in: Jesse Washington Lynching
Jesse Washington Lynching
Society in the South evolved ensuing the emancipation of slaves after the Civil War. The Reconstruction of the South ended in 1877 and only added to the bad racial tensions in the region. Whites instituted laws that held blacks back from education,…