While the vast majority of lynching victims were African Americans,other victims were those from the North who came down South to assist the Black population during ______ and White Southerners who sympathized with Reconstruction and efforts to integrate Blacks into Southern society.

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Lynching was prevalent during the Reconstruction era, which lasted from 1865 to 1877, a time when efforts were being made to integrate black Americans into Southern society. Many whites who sympathized with this cause were also lynched, as were Northern individuals who came to the South to assist blacks during this period. The other options, civil rights era and civil war, both had their respective acts of violence and targeted attacks, but the question specifically references lynching, which was a phenomenon associated with the Reconstruction era. The 1700s also predate the period of U.S. history in which lynching was most widespread.

While the Vast Majority of Lynching Victims Were African Americans,other