Peter, a man who was enslaved in Baton Rouge
Louisiana, whose scars are a result of a whipping by his overseer, who was subsequently discharged by Peter's owner.
(Photo on file with U.S. National Archives and Records) A favorite form of dealing with Negroes was public lynching. The practice of
killing people by extrajudicial mob
action, occurred in the United States chiefly from the late 18th century
through the 1960s. Lynchings took place most frequently in the Southern United States from 1890 to the 1920s, with a peak in the annual toll in 1892. 
Riots destroying black civilian home similar to the riots in Egypt and the rest of the Muslim Middle East.Birmingham, Alabama, would see some of the worst violence. 
Just before launching to a group of his closest aids: "I have to tell you that in my judgment, some people sitting in this room today will not come back alive from this campaign."Thousands of school children took part in the marches and demonstrations in this bastion of white supremacy. But the state police showed little mercy. "So long as I'm po-leece commissioner in Birmingham, the niggers and the white folks ain't gon' segregate together in this man's town" declared police chief, Bull Conner.
America's True History of Religious Tolerance
The idea that the United States has always been a bastion of religious freedom is reassuring—and utterly at odds with the historical record. From the earliest arrival of Europeans on
America’s shores, religion has
often been a cudgel, used to discriminate, suppress and even kill the
foreign, the “heretic” and the “unbeliever”—including the “heathen”
natives already here. Moreover, while it is true that the vast majority
of early-generation Americans were Christian, the pitched battles
between various Protestant sects and, more explosively, between
Protestants and Catholics, present an unavoidable contradiction to the
widely held notion that America is a “Christian nation.” 
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