After reading and viewing the mob mentality pieces, I conclude that mob mentality lead people to disgraceful acts that they normally wouldn’t do towards black people. For instance, Smith states that in a mob individuals feel less guilty for committing a crime because there are more people involved. Also, in Beitler’s photograph, the crowd doesn’t look phased by the lynching. They are smiling and pointing, and look as though they are laughing at the two Negroes being lynched. It states in the NPR Radio Diary (“Strange Fruit: Anniversary of Lynching”) that the photographer (Beitler) printed multiple copies of his lynching photo to sell as souvenirs. It also mentioned in the NPR Radio Diary (“Strange Fruit: Anniversary of Lynching”) that about
