The violence to which Ida B. Wells and Frederick Douglass refer in the Preface
to Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in all its Phases can best be attributed to
which of the following actions?
A. The institution of temperance laws and prohibition
B. The overturning of Jim Crow laws in the South
C. The passage of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments
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D. The rise of Democratic governments in the South