One such event that exemplifies the hate towards blacks, that occurred intended to terrify blacks was the red summer of 1919, in which a pandemic of lynching's and massacres occurred in more than three dozen cities in the United States such as Charlestown South Carolina, Bisbee Arizona, and Norfolk Virginia. Lynching's were very common as punishment for blacks, and most of them did not include fair trials, but instead white people usually falsely accusing blacks for a crime (most of the time included the rape of white women), and resulted in their perpetual death