The upper class did seem to give a little more recognition for the poor plight of the Black race, but, “If they sometimes displayed a greater sympathy, they felt less of a threat to their exalted position in southern society.”(Litwack 19). Their “genuine” concern only came from the fact that they knew that the Black race could not reach their position in society at that time. Everyone was participating in these mob lynchings, “’I led the mob which lynched Nelse Patton, and I am proud of it,’ a former U.S. senator from Mississippi boasted.”(Litwack 20). Not, only did Nelse Patton lead the mob, but he managed to engage in beneficial politicking at the same time. There was no trace of true concern anywhere in America, when people did express sympathy, “they seemed less concerned over the black victims than over the very real possibility that white civilization itself was on trial”(Litwack 22). Ministers wrote that, “is not that the negro will lose his skin, but that the Anglo-Saxon will lose his soul”’(Litwack 22).

In the end though, lynching did not deter the Black community from rising. If anything it only made them stronger and more aware of the hardships that they overcame. Whites nor Blacks must never forget the atrocities of the time. For they will forever serve as reminders of what ordinary people are willing to do, just as everyday German’s who killed so many Jews. We must remember the horrific images and never allow such things to happen again in any society.

As the end of the 19th century drew to an end the commonplace had become ridiculous; “hundreds of lynchings were accorded only a brief mention, particularly as they became routine affairs by the end of the century”(Litwack 18). Not many pe

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