1. what is the legal definition of lynching? what constitutes a mob?
2. what action did the naacp take against lynching in the 1920s?
3. how did the majority of lynching victims before 1890 differ from the
majority after that year?
4. what is one of the functions of a racial stereotype, according to paula
giddings? how do stereotypes relate to “first-class” citizenship?
5. how does giddings distinguish between rights and privileges? is “first-
class” citizenship a right or a privilege?
6. how did prejudices toward black americans change in the late
nineteenth century? how was science used to justify those prejudices?
7. what myths and fears were used to justify the lynching of black men?
8. what experiences influenced ida b. wells to challenge the custom of
lynching?
9. what strategy did wells use to challenge the practice and disprove the
myths used to justify it?
10. according to wells’s observations, what were the real reasons that blacks
were being lynched? what is the reality that her work uncovered about
the relationships that black lynching victims typically had with white
women?
11. what does giddings define as the primary function that lynching played
in jim crow society?

1- Its a violent punishment or execution without due process for real or alleged crime. It is characterized as an informal public execution by a mob in order to punish an individual. A mob is a large, disorganized and often violent crowd of people.

2- The anti lynching movement was organized in order to promote civil awareness.

3- Before 1980 lynching was a tool used to enforce the law on a particular racial group which most of the time was targeted towards black people, after 1980 and Jim Crow this ideology changed.

4- She stated that the absurd belief of black people being inferior to white people was the main racial stereotype.

5- She stated that there is a huge difference between rights and privileges. The main distinction being that a right is something everyone is born with however a privilege is a luxury which the so called first class citizenship is the perfect example.

6- Formal racial discrimination was banned  and came to perceived as morally unacceptable. Science proved that contrary to popular belief back then, black people are actually more equipped to live on earth while white people possess genetic disadvantages.

7- That black people were inferior and if a black man raped a white woman then his death was a justified measure.

8- She was often h*rrassed by angry mobs that simply wanted to lynch her for whatever situation she found herself involved with, with no logical reason at all.

9- She became an investigative reporter in order to use statistics to discredit the idea of lynching. She showed that in most cases the r*pe allegations were fake.

10- Racism was the main reason behind lynching. The statistics demonstrated that more than 78% of the deaths caused by this activity were black lives. Inferiority complex is also one of the main arguments she mentioned.

11-  Lynching was a method using to scare black people in order to prevent them from becoming first class citizens.

Hope this helps!

a. it reminds protestors of the reasons they have to protest.