Socl141 true justice

In order to complete this journal, you need to watch the documentary linked below (True Justice) and answer the following questions. Please note that the video provides a history of slavery and lynching. Graphic images may be shown.

Link: https://youtu.be/JfZPl4CFEUc

1. What surprised you most after watching the documentary? Or, what did you learn?
2. How did lynching become a normalized form of racial terror in the United States, and what societal norms or legal structures allowed it to persist?
3. Discuss how racial terror led to the Great Migration of black people from the American South to other parts of the country. How can we understand the conditions in marginalized communities in these areas today as a direct result of this period of history?
4. Reflect on the following quote and explain what it means to be complicit. "The people who perpetrated these lynchings weren't people wearing white hoods, there was no need to wear a hood. You could actually pose with the victim's body. You could carve their body up and collect souvenirs. This was actually a point of pride. Everybody was complicit."—Bryan Stevenson
5. How do you understand the links between the legacy of slavery, racial terror, and lynching to the current policy of mass incarceration?