>>3125238> "A major motive for lynchings, particularly in the South, was the white society's efforts to maintain white supremacy after emancipation of slaves following the American Civil War; they punished perceived violations of customs, later institutionalized as Jim Crow laws, which mandated racial segregation of whites and blacks, and second-class status for blacks."TL;DR white people hanged, shot, burned and dismembered black people for "crimes" as petty as allegedly looking at a white person the wrong way. Defs more civilized than eating shit tho