This continued into the lynching era, when the most common reason
for public lynching was the perception that white women needed to be protected from African American rapists and attempted rapists. Black
men were painted as sexually deviant monsters. In fact, writer and politician Rebecca Latimer Felton said, “If it needs lynching to
protect woman’s dearest possession from the ravening human beasts,
then I say lynch a thousand times a week if necessary.” Between 1880
and 1950, around 5,000 people were lynched, nearly 6 people every
month for 70 years.
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