1. Lynching
... only 4 have been sentenced." The NAACP hoped that the election of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932 would bring an end to lynching. Two African American campaigners against lynching, Mary McLeod Bethune and Walter Francis White, had been actively involved in helping Roosevelt to obtain victory. The president's wife, Eleanor ... after the end of the civil war and the destruction of slavery. Lynching was a form of terror used to suppress the minority African-American population. Lynching occurred in all parts of the nation. The effort to outlaw of lynching was a political cause of generations....
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- Grade Level: High School