White lynch crowds were festive and photographed with trophies

Evidence

A crowd of whites, attributing to themselves the sanction over life and death and viewing themselves as good and right, are reduced to the level of savages in their pursuit and apprehending of a presumed black criminal; they usually exhibit a festive atmosphere by singing, donning their Sunday finery, and bringing food to the place of death. A castration or some other mutilation usually accompanies the killing in addition to a gathering of trophies from the charred body. Sometimes the crowd lingers to have its picture taken with the victim. — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 164 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Lynching crowds voiced praise to God at the moment of death — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long: The Legacy of White…, 97; Lynching photos served as souvenirs for whites, not intimidation for Blacks.; Lynching photographs addressed white audiences, not Black ones — Sherene Razack, Casting Out: The Eviction of Muslims…, 161 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Lynch mobs killed festively with meals, Sunday clothes, mutilation, and souvenir photos #corroborates (0.97) — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 164