Lynch Mobs In The South

Lynching occurred most frequently in the deep southern states. One reason for the lynchings was the resentment of southern whites when the slaves were

After slavery ended four conflicts came up two of them were heavy racism and the fear of African Americans lives that were getting lynched very often. After the civil war the south was completely destroyed and they needed to rebuild. Lynching in the south was a big problem for blacks/African-Americans. In my primary source” Lynching in the United States, it shows how in the years 1889-1893 that 705 Lynchings were reported. Out of (705) 260 were white and 579 were black this a big impact on society of life for blacks. This made it very a hard and scared life for African Americans growing

Before and during the Civil War it was not uncommon for masters to physically harm their slaves, often times hurting them just enough so that they didn't die. But now as slavery was abolished, harm still came to those who were free. The only difference was that it had a new name (lynching) and some of the reasoning behind it. White southern leaders felt threatened and thought that their rights were the ones being threatened. They saw the North trying to elevate the colored population in the South, holding the freedmens' rights above the white population. Those men then began retaliating against those freedmen and any of their supporters. Where slavery usually involved the harming of the slave, lynching involved both white and black people, men and women. Many massacres occurred during this time of Reconstruction, most of them could have been avoidable if the North had stricter laws and higher security in places with high

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

Lynchings were commonplace, yet one of the most heinous acts of mob justice dealt out in the Jim Crow era. Between the years 1880 and 1930, 3,343 lynchings occurred in the United States. Eighty percent of lynchings occurred in the American South with the majority of these occurring in Mississippi and Georgia (Manis 56). Macon was not an exception to the outburst of lynchings. Six known lynchings occurred in Bibb County: one in 1880’s, one in the 1890’s, one in 1912, and three in years spanning from 1918 to 1922 (Manis 57). The three lynchings that occurred from 1918 to 1922 came at a time when returning WW1 veterans, exposed to entirely

Lynching was a prominent influence in the South, African Americans were constantly attacked and threatened, a result of Southerners need to show authority. Lynching became a social event for white Southerners, in Ida B. Wells narrative, she accounts the horrific events of lynchings, Wells states, “Here Smith was placed upon a scaffold, six feet square and ten feet high, securely bound, within the view of all beholders. Here the victim was tortured for fifty minutes by red-hot iron brands ... Then, being apparently dead, kerosene was poured upon him, cottonseed hulls placed beneath him and set on fire” (90). Racial classes were divided and lynchings showcased this inequality.

In the case of lynching, discourses emerge from heated debates about the meaning of the practice; these debates change over the long history of lynching in America. At different times in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the term “lynching” has implied rather different historical acts amongst the community. It has also been used to specify acts that indicated a wide range of distinct motives, strategies, technologies and meanings, as well as a politically encumbered term. For many African Americans who grew up in the South in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the threat of lynching was mundane. Photographs and postcards illustrating the popular image of an angry white mob hanging a black man does not give the full historic

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).

Another way that white southerners were able to rolled back many of the rights held by African Americans is by lynching. Lynch is a mob of people killed, especially by hanging, for an alleged offense with or without a legal trial. The primary source, ““Lynch Law in America” the author Ida B. Wells organized a national fight against lynching in the early twentieth century. Born a slave, Wells became a teacher and civil rights leader in Memphis, Tennessee. When a white mob lynched three of her friends, she helped organize a black boycott of white-owned businesses and wrote harsh editorials in her own newspaper. According to Wells, lynching “ It represents the cool, calculating deliberation of intelligent people who openly avow that there is

In my opinion slavery was the foulest part of Southern American and the Democrat Party’s history. Lynching appeared to be the second worst in the rank of the most hateful actions that were allowed in this shameful pattern of American heritage. The concept of lynching evolves from the racial dominion by White plantation owners of their African slaves. It was common for a planter to gather a crowd, get hold of a runaway slave and hang him or her without any approval from the law of the land. They summarized in such an unfair way that they were simply handling their property and that did not require the attention of the police or courts. I feel this should have been put to an end

Whites wanted to put fear in the hearts of the blacks so the first thing they thought to do was take physical action. This resulted in lynching, which is the killing of someone by hanging, for an offense with or without the fair justice of a legal trial. They began to do this as a punishment because of the demanding need of social control over the southern states after the Civil War and Reconstruction Era. Racial terrorism was at its peak and the whites didn’t want any blacks to have power or justice now or later so then came the publishing of the Jim Crow Laws. These were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern States of the US between 1874 and 1975. Jim Crow Laws were made to further the whites in their superiority and suppress blacks to become nothing. For example, the law of imprisonment stated that, "The warden shall see that the white convicts shall have separate apartments

Lynching is a form of corporal punishment intended to intimidate a racial or ethnic group most commonly a minority. This became extremely common in the southern regions of the United States during the 18th century as a way to reinforce Jim Crow Laws. These laws consisted of five different pillars centered on the political, personal, economic, legal and social oppression of African Americans. Lynching most commonly occurred when African Americans were accused of not following the social norms set by Jim Crow laws such demanding equal rights or having inappropriate interracial relations. In more radical cases lynching was used as a way to persecute blacks for heinous crimes they were often wrongly accused of committing. Such was the case with

For many years, Americans were at the top of the social caste system and something was coming to ruin the system that has worked to their benefit and it was called African American progression. African Americans were making a life for themselves and the white man was not having it. Out of fear, Americans, usually those that felt like they were close to equal to negro status and less educated, started to use lynching as a way to instill fear into the heart of the Black community. This did not mean that white Americans wouldn’t participate in these celebrations. Together Americans lynched countless black people and “nigger lovers” by burning, castrating, and dismembering

In the southern and border state, became an institutionalized method to lynching of the colored. Basically hanging was to terrorize black race and maintain white supremacy. Lynching was not a sectional crime due to the fact that there was a “lynch law”. Throughout WW1, the black communities were assaulted by Caucasian mobs. It all started when, the coloreds who go to the nearest café and have a sit-in. They were warned to get up and leave but as they sat still and studied their work, they were insulted. They took blows to the heads but they still sat still, some even fought back. And, at the end students were sent to jail but they were in their prime because they got to study for up coming

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.