Bennett, Kathy | Tennessee Encyclopedia

Bennett, KathyRandal Rust2017-11-11T14:37:24+00:00

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One of many expressions of violence directed mostly towards African Americans following Reconstruction and lasting well into the twentieth century was lynching. According to one set of statistics, lynch mobs in the old Confederate states, including Tennessee, killed 2,805 people,…