In the case of lynching, discourses emerge from heated debates about the meaning of the practice; these debates change over the long history of lynching in America. At different times in the 19th and 20th centuries, the term “lynching” implied quite different historical acts within the community. It was also used to specify acts that indicated a wide range of distinct motivations, strategies, technologies, and meanings, as well as a politically charged term. For many African Americans growing up in the South in the 18th and 19th centuries, the threat of lynching was commonplace. Photographs and postcards illustrating the popular image of an angry white mob hanging a black man do not provide the full historical context. Studying lynchings in the United States through photographs helps raise awareness of racial tensions. Lynching, the act of terror intended to spread fear among blacks, served the broad social purpose of maintaining white supremacy in the economic, social, and political spheres. During the Civil War and Reconstruction era, lynching marked a pivotal moment in the United States. It was prevalent in the Midwest and West and abundant in the South. Lynching occurred for numerous reasons with shameless public demonstrations advertised in newspapers, which drew large crowds of white families and revealed a key role in providing controversial moral support. Before the Civil War, lynching was carried out to impose a vigilante on their way of life and their white women. Early practitioners of lynching adopted what they called “frontier justice,” with the primary rationale being that local and federal government bodies were of little use in “those parts.” Compared to what happened later... in the middle of the paper... the perseverance of past practices. In other words, there is complicity throughout the lynching photographs case. The act of lynching was not a momentary phenomenon. “The motivation, organization, and practice of mass murder were consistent with the most deeply held beliefs and social identities of residents of the regions beyond the Alleghenies, where they held sway in the postwar era.” The people who carried out the lynching and those who disagreed with their actions were strongly involved in certain interpretations of the punishment of violence as implementation, in opposing views of “social status, culture and ethnicity, as well as differences between men and women , adults and children. "Ensuring white dominance and recognition of what the lynchers perceived as the difference between the races was the one difference that mattered most to the lynchers..