Most lynchings arose from Black male autonomy threatening reimposed white supremacy.

Evidence

The historian Terence Finnegan, at William Paterson University, states that “the autonomy and independence of black men were the greatest threats to the reimposition of white male supremacy, which is why most lynching developed from conflicts between black males and white males.” — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 294

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Brown’s repeated theme across her work that Black economic advancement, not poverty, triggers white backlash. — 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