Black resistance, not crime, drove the 1890s lynching spike

Evidence

Black people did not sit idly by during this segregationist organizing. Black resistance caused lynchings to spike in the early 1890s. However, the White lynchers justified the spike in lynchings as corresponding to a spike in Black crime. This justification was accepted by a young W. E. B. Du Bois, by the middle-aged, ambitious principle of Alabama’s Tuskegee Institute, Booker T. Washington, and by a dying Frederick Douglass. It took a young antiracist Black woman to set these racist men straight. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 724

Categorization

• QUESTION: Kendi asserts Black resistance caused the lynching spike — a strong causal claim worth verifying against other historical accounts.
• XREF: Directly instantiates the ignorance=>hate=>discrimination inversion’s failure: the racist idea (Black crime) came after the violent policy (lynching).