Lives have been lost based on claims that have never proven to be completely accurate. The author talks about how Hoke Smith, who was running for president at the time, used his power and increased tensions between blacks and whites. His power was superior and he was able to use it to influence and influence newspapers to publish certain stories. Smith wanted blacks to remain stagnant and did not want them to become too intelligent or powerful. Hoke created and initiated the Jim Crow laws known to support and encourage the separation and exclusion of blacks. He did this by ensuring literacy tests that were intended to discourage blacks from thriving and gaining rights. The author said, “The eventual winner, race-baiting Hoke Smith, may have conspired with pimps masquerading as blacks and assaulting white girls, while Atlanta editors published unsubstantiated accounts of bête noires raping white women ". “739:52”. Publishers and writers did not bother to investigate or confirm whether these allegations were true. Since this was the early 1900s, most people favored the idea that blacks were inferior to whites and that whites were superior. He also didn't care whether the blacks were right or not