Has anyone done the CommonLit: Excerpt from southern horrors: Lynch laws in all its phases? And does anyone know the answers to the guiding questions?

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a. a white woman accused him of *

2.

d. She thought it would protect her reputation

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c. only care about * cases when the victim is white and the accused is black.

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a. Justice for the victim is less severe, prevented, or not done at all.

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c. many white people worked to undermine Reconstruction and the freedom granted to African Americans.

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d. with silent acceptance

7.

a. spread further across the country

8.

c. African Americans should take advantage of their power in the American labor industry.

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d. African Americans

Explanation:

In this excerpt by Ida B. Wells, a glaring exposition of the lynching spurred by hate and racial discrimination of the Southern Whites against the African Americans was detailed.  Defaulters who were African Americans were punished by all possible mean ways while defaulters of White descent were left off the hook, or given very mild punishments.

An example was that of a man who harassed a young girl of African descent but was given only six months of jail time, received protection from the white liners and later became a detective himself. Wells encouraged African Americans to protect themselves.

Note!

Blanks with asterisks are words not allowed by the system.