The Lynching Of Black Women

In addition to lynchings’ of rape, mob execution of black women seemed to be less popular. The few black women that were lynched for murder and “bad character”. Black women only killed for self-defence or being sexual harassed. Whites used lynching and Jim Crow laws to condemn back to slavery as much as possible. In 1918 Mary Turner and her husband were victims of a “lynching orgy” in Georgia. This practical lynched became “... one of the most brutal lynchings involving a black woman… reported that the eighth-month-pregnant woman was hanged with her head downward, doused with gasoline and set on fire” (Berg, 111). Mob violence brutal act had no limits not even for the unborn child within Mary Turner. “While she was alive, one of the lynchers grabbed a knife and cut the unborn infant from her womb. …show more content…
Finally the mob unloaded their guns into the dead woman’s body” (Berg, 111). The racial terror from vigilantes had evolved to more than just lynching but inflicting extravagance against the back community. Typically, hundreds of whites men participated in lynching with several women and children watching. The NAACP (National Association of the Advancement of Colored People) helped the black community to investigate and stop lynchings’. Because “African-Americans should not expect protection from law enforcement or political leadership in the South, they had to wage their own struggle against lynching ” (Berg, 113). Blacks rebelled against lynchers’ brutality. African-Americans who fought against mob violence were looked as heroes. Blacks organized protection for black men who were accused of rape with larger groups that rushed to