People in the 19th century defined lynching as violence sanctioned, approved of, or perpetrated by a neighborhood or community acting outside the law. Today, lynching is defined as the act of taking someone's life without legal authority. This was frequently done by the mob and sometimes by hanging the victim. Lynching began to materialize in the American South after the Reconstruction era, during the late 18th century and continuing through the 1960s. Lynching primarily targeted innocent African American men accused of false crimes. Lynching began when people of color were freed and whites began to feel threatened as supreme rulers. . It was about black people feeling incarcerated and not participating in political matters such as voting and taking office. Lynching reached its peak in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, where it is estimated that up to 10,000 black people were killed. Whites also ruled the country using Jim Crow laws. Lynching remains one of the most disturbing and least understood problems America has faced. It has even been compared to the holocaust that occurred during World War II. Lynching, like slavery and segregation, was not unique to the South, but it assumed parallel proportions and importance elsewhere. Lynching came to define the distinctive character of the South, just as much as the Mason Dixon Line marked the region's boundary. The authors then took three different paths to reveal these acts committed in the south. These three ways of exposing the truth were writing short stories, songs/poems, and expositions. Of these three ways of bringing the truth to life, revelation was the most effective. Denunciation was the most effective means because it deeply invoked...... middle of paper...... painful and bloody campaign by whites to develop and impose racial order on people of color across the world. Expose is the best way to inform the public about lynching because it uses public records, addresses legal issues, and gets to the truth about lynching firsthand. Unlike poems, songs or short stories, it uses real examples that happened. In A Red Record, she says that the police would do nothing about these murders, and she attacks them directly. It also shows how the nation allows these crimes to be committed. A red disk can also be read in other countries, allowing information to spread around the world and not just in the United States. Exposing was the most effective way because it studies the form of lynching in depth, it is more understandable than poems/songs or short stories and reveals the truth about lynching. (Brundage)