During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, lynchings on African Americans became quite popular due to many whites looking for someone to place a harsh blame on. No matter how small the crime committed was, or even if the victim was innocent; a minority, usually African Americans, was held accountable. The accused would not even be given a second to explain himself, for as soon as a “White” accuses him; he would be charged, jailed, and tortured a few days later. African Americans were beginning to receive the same rights that the whites already had, which only angered and horrified the whites because they were the ones who were used to being on the top and having all the power. Women were often the ones who would be pointing the
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“The government …gave him the right to vote, but denied him the protection which should have maintained that right” Former slaves were given franchise because the government wanted equal treatment for all, but they never enforced equal treatment due to the fact that they never truly cared in the first place. “Six southern states also adopted a ‘grandfather clause,’ exempting from the new requirements descendants of persons eligible to vote before the Civil War (when only whites, of course, could cast ballots in the South)” As soon as news broke out that blacks had to be treated fairly and equally, the whites had to find another way to prevent them from voting, which caused them to form the ‘grandfather clause’ and that disenfranchised many of the blacks’ voting population. “In 1891, the Senate defeated a proposal for federal protection of black voting rights in the South. Apart from the grandfather clause, the Supreme Court gave its approval to disenfranchisement laws” Although there was a law stating that blacks had a right to vote, many whites were attempting to sanction those laws because they could not deal with the fact that blacks were on the same voting level as them. No African American was on the Supreme Court panel, which prevented them from casting a vote …show more content…
“The women claimed that he attempted to assault them. At once the dispatches spread over the entire country that a big, burly Negro had brutally assaulted two women” It is her word against his because no one is going to believe what the weak black man says over what the powerful white woman, all the woman has to do is ‘claim’ that the black man came on to her and tried to do something inappropriate to her. “Mrs. J.C. Underwood, the wife of a minister of Elyria, Ohio, accused an Afro-American of rape. The prisoner vehemently denied the charge of rape, but confessed he…was criminally intimate with her at her request. Sometime afterwards the woman’s remorse led her to confess to her husband that the man was innocent.” Stories often got twisted around to make the black man seem like the antagonist and the white woman to seem like the victim, even if the supposed antagonist was completely innocent and the real villain is the one who compiled the false account. “The relationship [between a young man and a white woman] had been sustained for more than a year, and yet this colored man was apprehended, thrown in jail from whence he was taken by a mob of [100] neighbors and hung to a tree and his body riddled with bullets” Whites always found a way to lynch a black man, even if a white woman was involved because all that has to be
“The government …gave him the right to vote, but denied him the protection which should have maintained that right” Former slaves were given franchise because the government wanted equal treatment for all, but they never enforced equal treatment due to the fact that they never truly cared in the first place. “Six southern states also adopted a ‘grandfather clause,’ exempting from the new requirements descendants of persons eligible to vote before the Civil War (when only whites, of course, could cast ballots in the South)” As soon as news broke out that blacks had to be treated fairly and equally, the whites had to find another way to prevent them from voting, which caused them to form the ‘grandfather clause’ and that disenfranchised many of the blacks’ voting population. “In 1891, the Senate defeated a proposal for federal protection of black voting rights in the South. Apart from the grandfather clause, the Supreme Court gave its approval to disenfranchisement laws” Although there was a law stating that blacks had a right to vote, many whites were attempting to sanction those laws because they could not deal with the fact that blacks were on the same voting level as them. No African American was on the Supreme Court panel, which prevented them from casting a vote …show more content…
“The women claimed that he attempted to assault them. At once the dispatches spread over the entire country that a big, burly Negro had brutally assaulted two women” It is her word against his because no one is going to believe what the weak black man says over what the powerful white woman, all the woman has to do is ‘claim’ that the black man came on to her and tried to do something inappropriate to her. “Mrs. J.C. Underwood, the wife of a minister of Elyria, Ohio, accused an Afro-American of rape. The prisoner vehemently denied the charge of rape, but confessed he…was criminally intimate with her at her request. Sometime afterwards the woman’s remorse led her to confess to her husband that the man was innocent.” Stories often got twisted around to make the black man seem like the antagonist and the white woman to seem like the victim, even if the supposed antagonist was completely innocent and the real villain is the one who compiled the false account. “The relationship [between a young man and a white woman] had been sustained for more than a year, and yet this colored man was apprehended, thrown in jail from whence he was taken by a mob of [100] neighbors and hung to a tree and his body riddled with bullets” Whites always found a way to lynch a black man, even if a white woman was involved because all that has to be