History of the United States II / Unit 4 USH2 0461 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Push: Terror in the South
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The idea
Tuskegee Institute researchers recorded thirty-five hundred lynchings and other race-motivated killings in the South from eighteen sixty-five to nineteen hundred.
In practice
The Tuskegee Institute and the NAACP publishing lists of every reported lynching.
Where people slip
The Klan's formal dismantling in the late eighteen seventies did not end the violence. Terror was a reason to leave.
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