The city of Memphis in 1982, was a place where racial inequality existed to the point where blacks were being lynched for several different reasons. The biggest reason was that black men were supposedly raping white women. This was not always the case. This journal was written, to tell the truth of what really happened. During this time, it was common for white men to engage in sexual activity with black women and considered normal in society. When a black man and white women engage in sexual activity it was not socially acceptable, so if caught women would say it was rape. This, in most cases, not the truth but it was a way to punish blacks for a socially acceptable reason. Most of the time the raping was a cover-up for white men being mad
