Lynching

1. Lynching Lynching is when someone is put to death, usually through hanging, by mostly mob action without the right. <http://generationnegro.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/lynching.jpg>

2. The Klu Klux Klan • <http://www.law.du.edu/jenkins/images/kkk.gif> • <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan> The Klan has existed since 1865. Most of the lynching was done by the Klu Klux Klan, but not all because the first Klan died out in the mid 1870’s. The Klan is a group of white supremacist the believed all colored were under them, and didn’t belong in the world.

3. Lynching at its Peak Introduction Explanations Lynching was most common around from the 1860’s to the 1880’s. The same period that the first Klu Klux Klan was still around. On August 16th, 1874, a thousand people from Mississippi took 3 black men from a jail in Brookhaven, and hung all three. They alleged that said that the blacks violated a white women. New York Times reported that a mob in Tennessee killed as many as 16 African Americans at once. The Chicago Tribune soon started to publish an annual tally of the amounts of lynching in a year, around the 1875’s.

4. Ida B. Wells (1862-1931) <http://www.sfbayview.com/wp-content/uploads/ida-b-wells.jpg> <http://www.duke.edu/~ldbaker/classes/AAIH/caaih/ibwells/ibwbkgrd.html> Was a leader for people that are in a struggle. She endured suffrage, she fought for the right to vote, and was part of an anti-lynching team. Made an autobiography of herself that had her opinions on the lynching and the “Crow Laws”. Was one of the founders of the (NAACP). “National Association for the Advancement of Colored People”

5. Ida B. Wells Bravery Introduction Explanations On a train once, Ida was sitting in a whites only cabin, and was asked to move, She refused, and the cabin member tried to drag her out but she bit his hand until he left her alone. He then got other members and they all dragged her out. This shows her passion for justice.

6. What Ida B. Wells claimed about lynching • She claimed “Negros have been killed in cold blood, without the formality of judicial trial and legal execution. The statistics show that after all these murders, only three white men have been tried, convicted and executed” (Wells1). • She also said that lynching was just as bad as slavery, because during slavery the owners would never kill them, because the slaves were worth to much. But now that they are free, the whites have no care for them. Introduction Explanations.

7. The Beliefs of the people doing the lynching. • There were many excuses that were used for lynching the Negros. • To end all negro “race riots”. • “No Negro Domination”, they thought that blacks shouldn’t have any right that they should respect, and they were worried Negros were gaining to much power. • They would say that the Negros that they lynched had done a crime, and were punishing them. • They felt that since they made the law, they can break it on the people under them, without legal reprimanding. Introduction. Explanations.

8. Lynching Death’s • “4,743 people died from lynching, and 3,446 of them were black men and women”. • 1,605 people died from lynching in Mississippi, Texas, and Georgia. • This was only since 1982, because before they did not keep track of the lynches <http://www.english.illinois.edu/Maps/poets/g_l/lynching/lynching.htm>

9. The anti-lynching Campaign. • “a movement to end mob violence against African-Americans--particularly the summary execution of individuals accused of crime (often the rape of white women)” • Led by the organizations: (NAACP), (CIC) Council for Interracial Cooperation, and the (NACW) The National Association of Colored Women

10. Picture sources: • http://generationnegro.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/lynching.jpg • <http://www.law.du.edu/jenkins/images/kkk.gif> • <http://www.sfbayview.com/wp-content/uploads/ida-b-wells.jpg> Book Sources: "Introduction." A History in Documents: Lynching in America. Ed. Waldrop Christopher. New York: NYU, 2006. 1-9. Print. Website Sources: "Ku Klux Klan." Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Web. 11 Apr. 2011. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan>. "Ida B. Wells-Barnett(1862-1931) and Her Passion for Justice, Black Women, African American Women, Sufferage, Women's Movement, Civil Rights Leaders." Home | Duke University. Web. 11 Apr. 2011. <http://www.duke.edu/~ldbaker/classes/AAIH/caaih/ibwells/ibwbkgrd.html>. "About Lynching." Welcome to English ﾇ Department of English, College of LAS, University of Illinois. Web. 11 Apr. 2011. <http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/g_l/lynching/lynching.htm>.