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Hardening of Racial Separation

Black and white photograph of city buildings, one with a flag that says"A man was lynched yesterday".

Fighting Lynching After 1900

Why are there ‘Jim Crow’ cars in the South?
It is because of the Afro-American.
Why are there so much lynching and midnight murder in the South?
To get rid of the Negroes.

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Black and white photograph of the lynching of Allen Brooks taken from elevated perspective. A large crowd around his body.

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Sepia toned photograph of a crowd standing on a bridge looking at two dangling bodies that were lynched.
A black and white photograph of silent protesters walking the street.