Lynching

Justin Lau (Wingkit) Professor Rogers History 100AC 6 October 2015 Response Paper: “The lynching of black and white women”, “Is this the Man?-White Girls Participation in Southern Lynchings” and “Southern Horrors” Feimster writes the female’s perspective of mob violence during the civil war. She further explains that victims of lynching were not necessarily always men who accused of rape. Even different ethnicities or sexualities were executed by mobs in South. Statistically, between 1880 and…

America Lynching is a way of execution where the person is deprived of any legal authority and set to be hanged by the mob. Lynching was meant to enforce laws to maintain white dominance. Lynching differs from a murder because California has defined it in statutes since 1933 as, “The taking by means of a riot of any person from the lawful custody of any peace officer action.”(1) A Murder, CA Penal Code 187, is defined as “the unlawful killing of a human being or a fetus with malice…

known as lynching. Though an act of extreme hate, lynching embodied a number of complexities for its motives, as well as the cultural significance adopted within the concept. Lynching represented the underlying struggle of power with the state, gender roles, and a social communion with the intent of reestablishing old racial norms. Ida B. Wells writes in her book “On Lynchings: Southern Horrors, A Red Record, Mob Rule in New Orleans”, of the elements of hypocrisy that exist in regards to…

So, obviously this race must have committed a crime beyond any else. A crime so cruel only the most evil could’ve conjured into existence. However, they committed no such crime. A race bred for slavery by the upper class of humans. The poem, The Lynching by Claude McKay, is a perfect representation of this torture and disrespect brought to African Americans. It presents a perfect showing of how the black society has been treated and the terrible torture they…

Safia Owais The Horrors of Lynching in the South The white Southerners hated the fact Freedmen have rights given by the government. They continued their ideology of a white American is better than a colored American. Their fear of Blacks dominating politics drove their actions to kill and murder the African population. They had multiple excuses for the lynching of Black men, and the aftermath of these excuses is still evident to this day. Southerners feared the Freedmen would participate in…

Ida B. Well’s narration in the book On Lynchings, is a story of a time in history of the United States that encompasses the period between late 1800s and the early 1900s. The author provides an account of experiences in the areas inhabited by the African American racial group together with the whites. Being a black woman, she gives her accounts of events in her own environment and vividly provides evidence of the occurrences. She gives an account of the racial discrimination that transpired…

Lynching, which began in the United States around 1880, was one of the most profound ways of demonstrating racial violence towards blacks in the South. Lynching continued in the United States until it began to settle down in the mid 1900s. This historical act of violence left an impactful strain on the relationship between black and whites for years forward. In the novel, 100 Years of Lynchings, author Ralph Ginzburg compiles primary source articles from 1880-1961 to demonstrate how ideas and…

This document was written by Ida B. Wells in the year 1900. This document was intended to provide people, specifically historians, the perspective of African Americans who experienced lynching because of racism and accusations. The purpose of this document is to explain how African Americans were treated and lynched in the late 19th and early 20th century. During the time that this document was created, rather than suffering from unforeseen actions, many African Americans were intentionally…

An Overview of Lynching in America” goes into very explicit detail regarding the inhumane, callous, and deplorable treatment that black people faced and encountered during most of the 1800s and the first half of the 1900s. The main topic which is discussed in the chilling article is the act of lynching, which are basically punishments that are created by a community of people who decide to act independently from the court of law’s general judicial proceedings. At first, lynching was not widely…

The Cross and the Lynching Tree, by James Cone is a masterful telling of the spiritual symbols important to many African Americans, not only surrounding their faith journey, but in their daily lives as well. Amidst the terror of systematic racism and violence, Cone still seems to find hope for his people vis a vie the lynching tree. In the aforementioned quote, Cone is saying that the cross can represent power for African Americans. That although it represents torcher, pain, and death, it is…