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"In just the 1890s there were more than 1,000 African Americans in the South and elsewhere that were victims of lynching - or murder by a mob. The Epidemic of violence worsened after the depression of 1893. Often, jobless whites took out their anger on blacks" by killing the people who they felt were taking their jobs.

-quote from America History of Our Nation book

credited to Pearson Prentice Hall

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