White Supremacist Violence
From the first year of Reconstruction to the early 1940s, lynching was the primary means of maintaining white supremacy in the American South. Considered by the federal government a normal condition of post-Civil War race relations, lynching was used not only as a specific act of summary "justice" but also as a symbol to further intimidate and degrade blacks. The magnitude of recorded mob violence between 1880 and 1940 almost defies description, involving more than five thousand men, women, and children in ritualized murder, often before an invited public. Two-thirds of the victims were African-American men. 
This image demonstrates how white supremacy violence was not physical but also mental. The refusal of African American for common jobs and in to public places just because they were black was just as damaging to the people as the beatings.
What makes this plaque so striking is that is a quote from the President Woodrow Wilson. It just shows the attitude towards blacks.
This is a current picture of a sign in Colfax, LA that tell the story of the Colfax riot took place where it states the 150 blacks and 3 whites were slain on April 13, 1873. it sits there as a reminder of the violence that took place against innocent people. what also makes this story significant is the fact that no one really knows exactly hoe many blacks died that day but it is a well known fact that 3 whites were killed.
164th. Nathan Williams (colored), badly whipped and his cotton taken away without any cause by Bill Mark, a white man, on his place, in 1874, because he voted the Radical [Republican] ticket.
228th. Old man Jack Horse and son was badly beat and shot at by white men- they were as bloody as hogs- at or near Jack Horse's place, going to the election November 7, 1870.
518th. Henry Moore, colored, killed by white men and burned; accused of living with a white girl near Homer, in 1873.
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