Brown+Chapter+16

I thought diversity was a interesting topic in this chapter. Lynching was a way for the people to take the law into their own hands. Mobs of people would gather together to injure or murder people that they thought had done a serious crime(s). In this time period however, it was used more for white people maintaining control over the southern black communities. A very common way for whites to show there power was through hanging black people in trees for the whole town to see. This also aided the Jim Crow laws. The Jim Crow laws mandated segregation in the South. It made the people black people "separate but equal".