Gone, too, were the hideous lynchings, which since the Civil War had caused the death of thousands of innocent blacks ? hanged without trail by white mobs.

• 此外，骇人听闻的私刑也宣告结束，如此私刑自南北战争以来曾使得上千个无辜黑人被白人暴徒不加审讯暗地里绞死。