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Hace 8 horas · Toggle Lynching as a means to maintain white supremacy subsection. ... following George White's murder in Delaware, and in the 1906 State of the Union Address on December 4, 1906. When Roosevelt suggested that lynching was taking place in the Philippines, ... Tennessee that lynched Ed Johnson, who was in jail for rape.
Hace 5 días · August 17, 1915, post-lynching hours before noon: At the behest of the photographer, a morbid gawker holds the tan-brown sarong wrapped around Leo Franks waist to steady his suspended body, ostensibly preventing his body from twirling gently in the breeze resulting in an unusable blurry photo.
Hace 3 días · In the early twentieth century, African Americans had plenty of reasons to leave the rural South: disfranchisement, segregation, poverty, racial violence, lack of educational opportunities, and the drudgery of farm life. As the cartoon below from The Crisis magazine shows, lynching stood out as particularly horrific and unjust.
Hace 5 días · Transcription. Emporia, Va., March 26—A double lynching followed the withdrawal of the troops at the jail here Saturday, a mob of 1,500 men hanging Walter Cotton, colored, a confessed slayer of four men, and Brant O’Grady, said to be his partner in crime.
Hace 3 días · In this 150th anniversary year of the Emancipation Proclamation and the 50th anniversary year of the March on Washington, interest in black political activity during the Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement is at a high point. What may not be included in these celebrations is the constant struggle, and triumphs, of African-Americans in the intervening years.
Hace 5 días · In other words, the intention of protest literature was—and remains—to show inequalities among races and socio-economic groups in America and to encourage a transformation in the society that engenders such inequalities. For African Americans, Some of the questions motivating African American protest poetry that inequality began with slavery.
Hace 3 días · James Stephen Hogg. March 24, 1851–March 3, 1906. The governorship of James Stephen Hogg, from 1891 to 1895, has been a benchmark for Texas governors ever since. Hogg was born in 1851 and grew up near Rusk. As a young man, he worked as a typesetter in a newspaper office and later published newspapers in East Texas while studying for a law degree.
