James Brothers wrote, " I would also take exception to the idea that lynchings took place with the full support of the White community (as claimed in an earlier post). They may have had the support of a substantial portion of the local White community, but to go beyond that is unacceptable. And given the activities of organizations like the KKK, some/many may have gone along or at least not objected because they feared for their own safety. --------- Even in the 1960s most of the KKK members tried for murder were not freed because of a hung jury. Most juries found in their favor in less than an hour. Newsreels show the jury members leaving with a smiles on their faces and patting themselves on the back. The "good people" of the U.S. were as silent as the "good people" of Germany. Now that we can accept this as being wrong (barbaric to some of us), it is time to stop making excuses, acknowledge how horrible it was and for historians to analyze how this developed. In some ways Germany managed to put their racist past behind them in a matter of a few decades because there was no one defending their awful past. Paul