University of Texas at Brownsville Lynch Law & Racial Violence Discussion HW Read the prompt below which gives instructions and questions on what to do for

University of Texas at Brownsville Lynch Law & Racial Violence Discussion HW Read the prompt below which gives instructions and questions on what to do for this discussion post. There are many moments when a certain historical topic has deep relevance to our current events. One of those topics is racial violence, or the history of people being targeted because of their race. As you will come to understand from our lecture about the New South and the end of Reconstruction, one of the ways that African Americans were stripped of their civil rights and forced to accept, in some cases, extreme poverty, was through the use of violence by whites. There is a well documented history of this violent behavior, often referred to as lynching. For this activity, you will be using the online database of newspapers curated by the Library of Congress, called Chronicling America, which provides a large variety of free historical sources. Please go to this website: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/ and use the search menu to look for the term “lynching” between the years 1870 and 1930. You should read/examine at least 4 different articles, all from different states. Then, return to this discussion board and explain what you read. Where were the articles from (geographic location), what did the articles say about lynchings? Did the article seem biased to you in any way? Were there any noticeable differences between the locations or dates of the articles you read? Then, consider newspapers as a source — who writes newspapers and what do we need to consider in terms of the inherent bias of newspaper sources?