Word: negrophobia
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...Berger's rigid interpretation, the post-Civil War Congress was dominated by "Negrophobia"; it was willing to extend to blacks rudimentary civil rights, such as equal punishment for crimes and the right to own property, but did not intend the 14th Amendment to grant them equal access to voting booths, schools, juries or jobs. Thus in Berger's accounting, when Congress enacted the provision including blacks as full citizens in apportioning House seats, it did not mean to compel the former Confederacy actually to give blacks the vote. Quite the opposite, he says: the provision meant to reduce...
...local sheriff is notorious for his Negrophobia and did little to obtain evidence. The state moved in quickly and sincerely, however, and indicted the two white men (something which might not have been done at all some years ago). It then went about trying to get a conviction. The two prosecuting attorneys made every attempt to get witnesses and evidence, and the judge was unanimously praised for his fairness, especially in having closed hearings on the racially tender issue of Till's supposed remarks...