As I skim the internet and history books for information on the 1940’s discrimination between blacks and whites. Many images arise that are grotesque in nature with bodies hanging from trees, badly beaten and burned. In the back ground of these images you can see white faces floating with laughter and wide eyes staring at their tortured victims. These people truly enjoyed the murdering of their African American neighbors. Most of these lynchings took place in poor southern towns and as a result “the lynching became a form of cheap entertainment”…
When one thinks of racism and segregation, lynching or hate crimes in general, we only think within the white and black margins, to many, the African American sufferings come to mind. Rosa Parks, and Martin Luther King are names we quickly remember, we don’t recall the Mexican American struggle, Mexican activists like Emma Tenayuca, or Dolores Huerta, or the nation’s first successful desegregation court case, Alvarez vs. the Board of Trustees of the Lemon Grove School District. Omitted from textbooks, historical data and documents, cases of Mexican and Mexican American lynchings and extralegal violence occurrences are lost and forgotten by all except the ones who were there to experience it first hand and those who have been fortunate enough…
I blame my local library's American History section for instilling in me a fear of Caucasian women. Go ahead, pick up Robert A. Gibson's "The Negro Holocaust: Lynching and Race Riots in the United States,1880–1950". After reading how the rhetoric surrounding lynchings frequently suggested they were to protect the virtue and safety of white women, you'll cower in fear ! Subsequently, only the brave should dare google Lisa Lindquist Dorr's White Women, Rape, and the Power of Race in Virginia, 1900-1960. It doesn't stop there....…
Sothern horrors is a pamphlet produced by the author Ida B wells detailing the barbaric nature of southern lynch laws in the Jim crow era of the United States. In it she details what she believes to be some of the main issues that caused the toxic environment for African Americans during these times. Issues such as white supremacy, and preserving the apparent honor of white women were the main causes of the lynchings she discusses within her paper. Her intent in writing this paper is quite clear. In her own words, she calls this paper “a contribution to truth, an array of facts, the perusal of which it is hoped will stimulate this great American Republic to demand that justice be done though the heavens fall.”…
After reading and viewing the mob mentality pieces, I can conclude that mob mentality was a key factor in people doing things that they would not normally do. As seen in Beitler’s photograph, there are two black, young, men being lynched by a white mob. This photograph also depicts the tattered and torn clothing of the two boys hanging; it also shows how casual, well dressed, and abundant the White people were (Beitler). Due to such a huge crowd, it was obvious that people were gathering to spectate. Everyone has a casual, nonchalant expression, and they almost pose for their picture to be taken.…
In African Americans confront lynching; Waldrep argues the interpretation of lynching and actual lynching. The word lynching originated in the American Revolution when Virginia "patriots" hung or beat captured American colonist who supported the British side during the American Revolution, instead of escorting them to prisons like the law required at the time. Americans think lynching is large mobs hanging victims, in fact lynching haven't always been fatal. Some lynchings have occurred secretly with only one or two people involved. The white supremacists took control and felt as if they were the law enforcement.…
The mob violence culture, in both North Carolina and throughout the southern United States, aided politicians, yellow journalists (writers of journalism that is based upon sensationalism and crude exaggeration) and overbearing executives in keeping federal officials from discovering that African Americans were “being removed en masse from voter rolls” (Clegg). Clegg goes on to explain that lynching was so appealing to white voters and workers because of their anxieties about “their own place in a social order facing the vagaries of modernity.” This means that lynching was simply a vehicle used to help old-fashioned, backwards-minded white people preserve the past in the only way they knew…
The majority of African American males were accused and lynched for allegedly raping white women. Whites claimed that the Negroes needed to be killed in order to avenge their assaults of white women. In her essay Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases, Wells writes that, “Nobody in this section of the country believes the old thread bare lie that Negro men rape white women… A conclusion will then be reached which will be very damaging to the moral reputation of their women” (52). To the disgrace of whites, many of the so-called “rapes” were actually consensual.…
The author shares his research in which he finds that “more than four thousand racial terror lynchings between 1877 and 1950 in those twelve states, eight hundred more than had been previously reported” (p.3, para, 14). We see that racial terror lynching used a weapon against the black people, specifically. The hidden purpose is to maintain the white authority and n majority as well. These practices raise a question mark to the criminal justice system in the country. These lynchings were viewed as a celebrating event which ensures the white supremacy in the…
In the 1800s there was racial conflict all over America, especially the south. White people thought they were the superior race and treated blacks terribly. As racial tensions rose in the south, Lynching took place given it represented the white hatred for blacks. Lynching occurred in America during the 18th century and through the 1960’s.…
Thousands of people of different ethnic groups (mostly whites and blacks) fell victim to lynchings in America for a range of crimes or violations. America saw almost a hundred years of lynchings, highlighting the demographic and economic changes many southerners did not want to face. The number of victims lynched was very high, but the exact number may never be known. Lynchings, mostly committed by extralegal groups, were feared my many, mostly in the Deep South. These were public events conducted by—and both watched and encouraged by—local people.…
Hitler, Rosa Parks, and Martin Luther King Jr. are three people who are known worldwide for trying to change the world either for better or for worse. In these peoples’ lives, what common issue drove their motives and actions? Racism. Racism is what people often associate slaves, African Americans, and even common problems in today’s society (such as the riot “Black Lives Matter”) with. However, the argument can be made that racism was a much larger problem in the 1930s, which is when the events of To Kill a Mockingbird took place.…
In the southern United States lynching was a very common form of how black men were killed. In lines 5-7, the term black is now referred to evilness. Whites mark Blacks as evil beings, yet they do not let this get in the way of their thinking. If they allow this to corrupt their minds they will eventually back down and will not be able to suppress them for the fear that the blacks will soon fight…
In fact, lynching was a popular form in America used to dehumanize the offender and to use him or her as a lesson for the com-munity to beware of the consequences. As a result, displaying the executed…
GradeSaver, 29 July 2007 Web. 13 July 2015. Garoutte, Lisa. " Elite-Race Interaction And Racial Violence: Lynching In The Deep South, 1882-1930.…