Lynching is an act of violence that took place in great numbers from the era of slavery to the times of the civil rights movements. The Webster's definition of lynch is to execute, extrasensory perception by hanging, without due process of law. Many innocent lives were taken because of the hatred that was accepted during the time that lynching was occurring at large. "Between 1882 and 1900 more than a thousand people in the South were killed by whites who took the law into their own hands. Lynchings peaked 1892, and in all years the overwhelming majority of victims were black men," (Hodes 176). These victims had not always done something wrong or committed a heinous crime, the charge could have been wholly fabricated, and they were accused of many things. Acting suspiciously, gambling, quarreling, adultery, grave robbing, race hatred; race troubles, aiding a murderer, rape, arguing with a white man, resisting a mob, inflammatory language, informing, slander, being obnoxious, courting a white woman, throwing stones, demanding respect, mistaken identity, unpopularity, voodoism, trying to vote, and voting for the wrong party are just a few of the unjust reasons where whites felt it was

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Webster's II New Riverside Dictionary. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1996.

Hodes, Martha. White Women, Black Men Illicit Sex in the 19th-Century South. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1997.

This impressive masterpiece, "Mob Victim," would have never been completed if Lois Mailou Jones did not follow her passion for art. Lois Mailou Jones was born in Boston, Massachusetts, 1905. She studied at a plethora of schools, which included the Boston Normal Art School, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Columbia University Teachers College and the Academie Julien in Paris. These are only a few of her educational triumphs. Jones attended the High School of Practical Arts in Boston where she was the art editor of the magazine. During her high school years Jones received a scholarship to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts vocational drawing class. From this point she was awarded a scholarship to go to the Boston Museum school of Fine Arts, where she majored in design. She later received a graduate scholarship for the Designers Art School of Boston to do textile designing for cretonnes. She also studied at the Massachusetts College of Art. From her design education she was able to become a drape designer for a large New York companies such as F.A. Foster Company and Schumacher's of New York, which baffled white store owners when she would stop in their store to point out her own design. The white people were unable to grasp the idea that a black woman could make such wonderful designs. This was reason enough for Jones to notice that she was not getting the recognition that she deserved, but the only possible way for her to receive her recognition was for her to paint.

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