Essay On Lyncing Violence

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Here, Wells recounts the way that racism seizes the American dream, seizes any conception of a meritocracy, and instead punishes any African American regardless of their success. Furthermore, Wells extends this threat on the American dream to a threat on the constitution (specifically the 14th amendment), stating, “It should be already established as a fact . . . that every human being must have a fair trial for his life and liberty” (202). Again, Wells demonstrates the way that lynch law and racism supersedes the supreme law of the United States, thus threatening the very foundation of American life and

First, ask yourself how would you feel after hearing the news that one of your family members had been lynched? Throughout the chapters 1-8, we can experience and observe the disheartening history of violence and lies. It is additionally an irritating depiction of a partitioned country on the very edge of the social equality development and an eerie contemplation on race, history, and the battle for truth. Throughout history, the conditions of the lynching, how it affected the legislators of the day, quickened the social equality development and keeps on shadowing the Georgia people group where these homicides occurred. During the 1900s until 19600s various African-Americans experienced various harsh conditions of violence, never being granted the right to vote and being segregated from whites based on their race and skin-color from their white masters. In general racism between whites and blacks can be seen throughout the globe during the era of slavery

Let’s examine the reality of violence during the Reconstruction Era. In the document, “Southern Horrors- Lynch Laws in All its Phases, by Ida B. Wells-Barnett we see countless examples of the continued violence in the south against African-Americans. The slogan “This is white man’s country and the

Black people, even today, are subject to racially motivated violence and discrimination in their everyday lives. In the 20th century this kind of treatment was accepted and even at times prompted by authorities. Back then, brutal murders of black men, women, and children

Recently, an L.A. Times article (dated 2/13/00) reviewed a new book entitled "Without Sanctuary", a collection of photographs from lynchings throughout America. During the course of the article, the author, Benjamin Schwarz, outlined some very interesting and disturbing facts related to this gruesome act of violence: Between 1882 and 1930, more than 3,000 people were lynched in the U.S., with approximately 80% of them taking place in the South. Though most people think only African Americans were victims of lynchings, during those years, about 25% were white. Data indicates that mobs in the West lynched 447 whites and 38 blacks; in the Midwest there were 181 white victims and 79 black; and in the South, people lynched 291

During the nineteenth century, lynching was brought to America by British Isles and after the Civil War white Americans lynching African American increased. Causing and bringing fear into their world. In the Southern United States, lynching became a method used by the whites to terrorize the Blacks and to remain in control with white supremacy. The hatred and fear that was installed into the white people’s head had caused them to turn to the lynch law. The term lynching means to be put to death by hanging by a mob action without legal sanction. So many white people were supportive of lynching because it was a sign of power that the white people had. “Lynching of the black people was used frequently by white people, their is no specific detail of how many times they had done it, but lynching of black people has lasted from 1882 to 1968. Lynching also is in fact a inhuman combination of racism and sadism which was used to support the south’s caste system,’’(Gandhi).

When President Abraham Lincoln addressed the nation in his Gettysburg address he expressed the bloodshed from the civil war would bring about a “new birth of freedom” for the American people and nation. During the 19th century and in the aftermath of the civil war, white southerners engaged in a ruthless and never ending cycle of violence against African Americans. The white southerners engaged in violence over whether or not, after slavery African Americans would get full benefits of citizenships. The terror that was inflicted by whites onto African Americans resulted in 4,743 of African Americans being tortured, and lynched between the years of 1882-1968. Lynching has become the most disturbing and lawless act in American history. Many scholars and leaders have debated over the reasoning of such violent acts such as lynching during this time period.

Death Blow to Jim Crow: The National Negro Congress and the Rise of Militant Civil Rights. By Eric S. Gellman. (Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 2012. Pp. xiii, 354. $39.95.)

It illuminated a shooting victim who became a martyr for divisive race relations. It turned a victim of sexual assault into a symbol that called for justice. It made an example of two men by allowing them hang through the night of August 7th, 1930. Thanks to Hall’s premise regarding lynchings, scholars can better contextualize lynchings in America as neither random occurrences nor as completely premeditated events, but specific, targeted events coordinated by white communities to convey appropriate notions of gender and race. Many of the bystanders and rioters who were present that night resumed their lives as they did before. They were able to do so because the Marion lynching was not an outlier. It was not a flagrant response to an egregious crime. It was exactly what people expected each other to do, and for many, that night confirmed what they believed about justice, sexual assault, and interracial crime. Once an unspoken rule, the lynching made these things clear for everyone who lived in Marion. The law enforcement can only promise justice. The mob is always available to make it

Violence is one thing that happened many times between the slaves and their owners. The author records in his works a poem that only appeared in the Partisan Review of 1935 about a lynching that occurred (75). In the poem, the writer makes mention of the fact that there was a baptism conducted by the use of gasoline as the crowd had proposed. In the piece, there are times where the African-Americans have to disagree with those they lived with and the consequences were altogether severe. In his book, Coates mentions police brutality as a major cause of death among the blacks. This is not just his assertion but has been witnessed throughout the ages where blacks are more suspected criminals than any other race (77). These are some of the indications of racial segregation still taking place in America.

The great majority of people lynched between 1882 and 1930 were black. During that period there were almost 4800 recorded lynchings in the United States. There were many more, no doubt, but we know about 4800. 3400 victims of this mob justice were black. The period from 1889 to 1893 accounted for the worst years. 579 blacks were lynched as opposed to 260 whites. That is a ration of 2.2 blacks lynched for every white. This is a significant difference already, but only part of the story. By the end of the century the racial nature of lynching had revealed itself, completely and unmistakably. Between 1899 and 1903, 543 people were lynched in the United States -- men and women. Of that number only 27 were white. That is a ratio of 22 blacks lynched for every white.

In “Democracy Abroad, Lynching at Home”, author Tameka Hobbs examines the history of racial violence and lynchings in Florida, she focused especially on a string of ruthless lynchings that occurred during the 1940s. She argues that these lynchings created difficult diplomatic moments during both World War II and the Cold War period and that they forced the U.S. government to become more active in prosecuting racial violence. While reading this book it is very hard to not get upset. Although the stories of slavery and lynching are nothing new to the public it is just unbelievable that such events could go on and are still happening to this day.

The books Child of the Dark by Carolina Maria de Jesus and Testimony by Victor Montejo describes the lives of two individuals from different societies. In both of these societies there was much hardship and violence. The two main characters who wrote these books describe life through their point of view and explains the hardship and challenges they had living in a society filled with violence.

Lynching was way of life in the United States at the beginning of the twentieth century. As Wells-Barnett points out, although most white people try to say that they did not want to discuss the noisy, because it will drag the reputation of angry white women, the vast majority of lynching had been completed, white people thought like lynching or burning some black people just to teach them their place. Wells intends to dissolve these myths and reasons into lynching, especially black rape white women. She repeats and the objectivity of the news proves that most black corpses killed black citizens are innocent and that their murders are not punished.