jan 6, 1883 - 1880-1910: Lynching (Southerners did not just rely on the law to deny civil rights to African Americans, terror was a common tactic used by white mobs to supress the population of a local area. The height of the southern lynching campaign occurred during this period. Lynching would usually go as follows; a white mob would take an African American man, who had been alleged to have committed a serious crime such as raping a white woman and then without any form of trial murder said man, usually via hanging.) (Timeline)