Candice Hale

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The function of lynching was so much more than a bypassing of the justice system. It was a form of psychological terrorism. And it sent several messages. One basic message was that they had killed people like Williams and Armwood before and, if necessary, would do it again.
Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum
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