The Article ' Regarding The Aftermaths Of Lynching ' By Kidada E. Williams

Wells,“Lynch Law in America,”) Over a hundred of African Americans were lynched every year. The unwritten law was practiced for thirty years, inhumanly butchering thousands of men, women, children by either drowning, hanging, shooting, and burning them alive. By this point, the national law was irrelevant and the unwritten law was superior among the southern states. With every killing, white Americans would invent an excuse accordingly and to make matters worse, they realized it was sufficient to put anyone to death if the crime was against a woman, no matter if it were true or not, since it was under the unwritten law, which did not allow any sort of trial. This accusation was done in “the interest of those who did the lynching to blacken the good name of the helpless and defenseless victims of their hate. For this reason they publish at every possible opportunity this excuse for lynching, hoping thereby not only to palliate their own crime but at the same time to prove the negro a moral monster and unworthy of the respect and sympathy

Wells provides a quote from the apologist John Temple Graves in which he claims lynch mobs are the only thing protecting white women from black men, and she uses strong diction to directly repudiate his reasoning. She claims that “All know [the apologists’ reasoning for lynching] is untrue”. This strong claim emphasizes her passion and knowledge in the reasoning behind the lynching. Furthermore, Wells clarifies that “The cowardly lyncher revels in murder, then seeks to shield himself from public execration by claiming devotion to woman. But truth is mighty and the lynching record discloses the hypocrisy of the lyncher as well as his crime,”. This claim confirms the racist reality of why many black people were lynched. Moreover, the use of the phrase “revels in murder” illustrates that the lynchers enjoyed the hangings, showing they were not for the punishment of crimes but, instead, for entertainment. To further elevate her claims and deny the lynching defenders, Wells provides a list of reasons why 285 people were lynched: “no cause, 10; race prejudice, 49;... making threats, 11...”. She asserts that these lynchings occurred mostly due to racial issues. By providing this list, Wells implies that few lynchings actually had to do with protecting white women; even further, she implies that many of the crimes were

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

. . but specifics [to him] didn’t matter because the victims were now symbols of injustice: a NAACP cause” (78). Especially given the long-past, over-60-years-old nature of the lynching, Wexler’s goal, and therefore also her writing, must more profound, and compelling, than this, and therefore she, unlike White, is interested in the specifics: “Roger and Dorothy Malcolm, and George and Mae Murray [the lynching victims] . . . I have tried to bring them to life” (266). Wexler succeeds in that, rather than merely mentioning these victims in the context of the lynching, she includes detailed biographies of each, as well as of their relations, and describes their actions long before and immediately leading up to the lynching, in an attempt to give the reader a better understanding of and greater empathy for them.

‘Fire in a canebrake’ is quite a scorcher by Laura Wexler and which focuses on the last mass lynching which occurred in the American Deep South, the one in the heartland of rural Georgia, precisely Walton County, Georgia on 25th July, 1946, less than a year after the Second World War. Wexler narrates the story of the four black sharecroppers who met their end ‘at the hand of person’s unknown’ when an undisclosed number of white men simply shot the blacks to death. The author concentrates on the way the evidence was collected in those eerie post war times and how the FBI was actually involved in the case, but how nothing came of their extensive investigations.

Wells began investigative journalism to document lynchings and subjugations of blacks. She published her findings in “Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases.” She suggested that most liaisons

America’s actions that took place in the past have significantly affected how it is shaped today. Cities all over America have been torn apart by our past and now it’s all catching up to us now. It’s only a matter of time before our actions become too much to handle.

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

Founded in 1909, the NAACP (the National Association for the Advancement of White people) strived for the abolishment of segregation, the protection of blacks from lynching, and the destruction of the black codes. Lynching (lynch [verb]: to put to death (as by hanging) without legal sanction. Source) had been a common threat to black life after slavery was abolished in 1865. Usually carried out by a mob of whites, a person could be lynched for no reason, though the most common reason for a black to be lynched was a false accusation of murder or rape. And Blacks were not the only people who could be lynched. Any white during this time that sympathised with a black ran the risk of being lynched themselves. Between 1882 and 1962, approximately

A documentary, two articles and a song were all written about the lynching of the teenage boy and the impact of his lynching in regards of the civil rights movement, and while they are all about the same thing they all have different purposes. The first article Lynching of Emmet Till by Chris Crowe’s purpose in writing

Starting with 1892, the Ida’s newspaper was destroyed. Her newspaper, the Memphis Free Speech, was the most prominent Newspaper for forty years of lynching in United States. They then began making speech and her last speech was the one she made in Chicago on January 1900. The national crime for USA by then was lynching. Today, lynching is not the creature for a moment. It can attract uncontrolled fury of the insane mob, leading to destruction. Lynching was being used as the effective method of making judgment by those times.

There have been 4,742 lynchings from 1882 to 1965, and 3,445 were black while only 1,297 were white, making just under 73% of the lynching victims black. During this hard time of racial segregation, blacks were often the focal point of terror. Growing up in the 1930’s, Harper Lee explains the life of a child during a struggle between not only white and black, but between right and wrong. Lee shows how a young girl comes of age and is exposed to reality. In the portrayal of Scout growing up in the deep South during the 1930’s, Harper Lee uses point of view and symbolism to convey the message that if a person rejects their negative roots, then they will be able to overcome them and become a better person.

Lynching falls into the category of a Holocaust because Blacks were hung and lynched for trivial offenses or no reason at all, but mostly racial prejudice. They could have been lynched for arguing with a white man, being too close to a white woman or even attempting to vote. Additionally, lynching happened at large throughout the United States. It was not a sectional crime or a Southern phenomenon. Lynching cases could have been found in Southern, as well as, Western and Northern states. Moreover, their publicity and advertising was massively promoted and published. An outrageous crime was turned into a social show meant to entertain some and frighten others. How does such a national and dramatic routine implemented on a massive scale throughout

In Richard Wright’s 1940 novel Native Son the murder of two young women shock the city of Chicago. Mary Dalton, a white millionaire heiress, and Bessie Mears, a working class Black woman are both killed by Bigger Thomas, a young African-American male. Although equally gruesome, the deaths of Mary and Bessie do not elicit the same responses. While a right ensues for Mary before and after Bigger is caught, there is no mention of what happens to Bessie. However, the lack of attention to Bessie’s murder is not an anomaly. Throughout Native Son, readers are consistently informed and reminded that Bessie does not occupy the same space or status as Mary in their society and in the mind of Bigger. The women are only positioned as equals is during

Lynching, a mob justice practice of extrajudicial murder or summary executions, drew more attention than before after the American Civil War of the 18th century. Frequent executions occurred in the southern states as compared to the Mid-Atlantic States in the late 1890s and the early 19th century, where multitudes of watchers turned up to witness. Fewer incidences in the Mid-Atlantic can be attributed to local legal authority responses and development of criminal justice state systems to deal with agents of a death penalty. Most of these incidences targeted African-American race and Sicilian immigrants as white supremacy became over dominant. African-Americans, as well as the Italian population, lost several civil privileges during the Nadir Era, the period running 1890-1920, after American reconstruction. Higher cases of racial segregation, anti-black violence, racial discrimination, and lynching increased. In particular, higher lynching rates in the south were associated with economic strains like economic stress and inflation, although this linkage failed to establish a clear causal nature, with different scholarly literature giving varying accounts of lynching.