African Americans in the South were lynched after the Civil War.Between 1882 and 1930,more lynchings occurred in years when cotton prices were low and economic frustration was presumably high.This suggests that prejudice can be partly explained by ________.

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The correlation between low cotton prices, economic frustration, and increased lynchings suggests that the violence was a form of displaced aggression. People took out their economic frustrations on a scapegoated group rather than addressing the actual source of their problems.

African Americans in the South Were Lynched After the Civil