Lynchings enforced racial hierarchy when racist ideas failed to

Evidence

“The action of President Roosevelt in entertaining that nigger,” he said, “will necessitate our killing a thousand niggers in the South before they will learn their place again.” Tillman showed in this statement the real purpose of lynchings: if racist ideas won’t subdue Blacks, then violence will. Roosevelt learned his lesson, and he never invited a Black person to the President’s House again. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 765

Categorization

• SHARE: The Tillman quote — ‘will necessitate our killing a thousand niggers’ over a dinner invitation — is exactly the kind of raw primary source a historian friend would relish.
• XREF: connects to: Racial proximity that symbolized affection was a lynching catalyst for black men — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long: The Legacy of White…, 603