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| | Lynching in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | In 1951, the Civil Rights Congress (CRC) made a presentation on lynching to the United Nations titled "We Charge Genocide," which argued that the federal government, by its failure to act against lynching, was guilty of genocide under Article II of the UN Genocide Convention. | | | Originally, lynching meant any extra-judicial punishment, including tarring and feathering and running out of town, but during the 19th century in the United States, it began to be used to refer specifically to murder, usually by hanging. | | | Murder was a common form of lynch mob "justice," sometimes with the complicity of law-enforcement authorities who participated directly or held victims in jail until a mob formed to carry out the murder. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_in_the_United_States
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| | Black Women in the NAACP Promote an Anti-Lynching Bill, 1918-1923, Introduction |
| | Lynching, Talbert claimed, was a "terrible blot upon America's civilization" and, contrary to common beliefs, did not serve to protect white women against rape as too few of those lynched were accused of this particular crime (see Documents 7 and 12). | | | The NAACP was to use the money raised by the Crusaders for publicity, to put pressure upon Congress and state legislatures, for investigation of lynchings, and for legal processes necessary to the cause of the Dyer Bill (see Document 15). | | | First introduced into the House of Representatives in 1918, Congressman Leonidas Dyer's anti-lynching bill was intended to punish state, county, and local authorities who failed to prevent lynching and act as a deterrent to end the practice altogether (see Document 1). |
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http://womhist.binghamton.edu/lynch/intro.htm
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| | Lynching |
| | Lynching is the illegal execution of an accused person by a mob. | | | Lynching was originally a system of punishment used by whites against African American slaves. | | | Lynching, he says, is absolutely necessary to keep down this crime. |
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http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAlynching.htm
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| | 79.02.04: The Negro Holocaust: Lynching and Race Riots in the United States,1880-1950 |
| | The Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill provided fines and imprisonment for persons convicted of lynching in federal courts, and fines and penalties against states, counties, and towns which failed to use reasonable efforts to protect citizens from mob violence. | | | When the sentiment of a community favored lynching the laws were difficult or impossible to enforce. | | | At the beginning of the twentieth century, such organizations as the Afro-American Council and the Niagara Movement, precursors of the NAACP, demanded investigation of lynchings and legislation to enforce the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments. |
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http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1979/2/79.02.04.x.html
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| | Minutes of the Executive Committee of the Anti-Lynching Crusaders, [1922] |
| | These investigations must be far more thorough than in the past for on them we must be able to build court cases with facts and witnesses. | | | This means that not less than $100,000 ought to be available this moment for the anti-lynching campaign and that it will take at least $1,000,000 to stop lynching and mob violence in United States and provide legal defense. | | | Moreover, if the Dyer Bill fails of passage before March, the present bill must be reintroduced in the next Congress. |
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http://womhist.binghamton.edu/lynch/doc14.htm
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| | American Experience The Murder of Emmett Till People & Events |
| | Whites could accuse at will and rarely was a white punished for a crime committed against a black. | | | By the early twentieth century, the writer Mark Twain had a name for it: the United States of Lyncherdom. | | | Lynchings were frequently committed with the most flagrant public display. |
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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/till/peopleevents/e_lynch.html
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| | BBC NEWS South Asia Women bailed over court lynching |
| | On Tuesday, they were brought to court, where their bail plea was rejected, and they were remanded in custody for another day. | | | Supporters gather in Nagpur to demand bail for the women | | | The judge accepted their application amid protests by hundreds of women who threatened not to leave the court until the demand was met. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3577018.stm
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| | lynching - Columbia Encyclopedia® article about lynching |
| | Lesser crimes might be punished by exile, while crimes that seemed to them capital, such as rape, horse stealing, and cattle rustling, were punished by lynching. | | | When a Tory conspiracy was discovered (1780) in Bedford co., where he had been a justice of the peace from 1774, Lynch, a zealous patriot, presided over an extralegal court that meted out summary punishment to the Loyalists. | | | Three times (1922, 1937, 1940) antilynching legislation passed the House of Representatives, only to be defeated in the Senate. |
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http://columbia.thefreedictionary.com/lynching
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| | Last Statement - Gary Graham |
| | There's overwhelming and compelling evidence of my defense that has never been heard in any court of America. | | | Nothing more than state sanctioned murders, state sanctioned lynching, right here in America, and right here tonight. | | | This is what happens to black men when they stand up and protest for what is right and just. |
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http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/stat/grahamgarylast.htm
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| | Duluth Lynchings Online Resource |
| | A call for justice, but the lynch mob is only lightly punished. | | | That evening, three of them – Elias Clayton, Elmer Jackson, and Isaac McGhie – are taken from jail by a mob and lynched. | | | Two blacks are tried on questionable charges of rape. |
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http://collections.mnhs.org/duluthlynchings
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| | American Experience Scottsboro: An American Tragedy Special Features |
| | Since Reconstruction, the South had seen thousands of lynchings, acts of vigilante justice in which a mob punished an accused criminal, frequently an African American, without recourse to judicial due process. | | | At the beginning of the twentieth century, there were more than a hundred lynchings a year in the United States. | | | This led, unfortunately, to an expectation -- or a willful disregard -- that trials in such cases would be swift and would end in capital punishment. |
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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/scottsboro/sfeature/sf_lynching.html
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| | Digital History |
| | At his confirmation hearings for the U.S. Supreme Court, Clarence Thomas silenced Senate critics when he accused them of leading a "high-tech lynching." | | | Lynching received its name from Judge Charles Lynch, a Virginia farmer who punished outlaws and Tories with "rough" justice during the American Revolution. | | | Apologists for lynching claimed that they were punishment for such crimes as murder and especially rape. |
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http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=213
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| | History of Lynching in the United States, Jana Evans Braziel |
| | History of Lynching in the United States, Jana Evans Braziel | | | There are "2805 [documented] victims of lynch mobs killed between 1882 and 1930 in ten southern states. | | | Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1992. |
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http://www.umass.edu/complit/aclanet/ACLAText/USLynch.html
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| | The History of Jim Crow |
| | This is what was new, legally speaking, in the drive to undermine black suffrage in the 1890s. | | | These new legal restrictions were backed in turn by acts of intimidation, the use of chain gangs and prison farms, debt peonage, the passage of anti-enticement laws, and a wave of brutal lynchings that dominated the southern racial scene for the next forty years. | | | The ante-bellum system of slavery was rooted in terror and violence, and the Ku Klux Klan continued the practice in the name of white supremacy after the Civil War. |
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http://www.jimcrowhistory.org/history/creating2.htm
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| | Reader's Companion to U.S. Women's History - - Lynching |
| | Between 1882 and 1923 over five hundred Blacks were lynched in Georgia, the largest number of lynchings in the United States. | | | Following the war, Lynch's extralegal actions were deemed justifiable by the Virginia legislature on the grounds that the Tories were a clear and present danger and law and order needed to be restored by any means necessary. | | | Although Black women were important pioneers in one of the most important reform movements in the United States, they have been largely invisible; the men of the NAACP and Southern white women received greater attention. |
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http://college.hmco.com/history/readerscomp/women/html/wh_021600_lynching.htm
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| | Public Affairs 2003 Press Releases |
| | Waldrep personally inspected Mississippi Supreme Court records, the Department of Justice files at the National Archives and the Southern Historical Collection at the University of North Carolina. | | | Waldrep, who holds the Jamie and Phyllis Pasker Endowed Chair in History at SFSU, believes that the issue of lynching came down to the question of communities having confidence in the court system. | | | Migrating Virginians in the early 19th century often talked about "Judge Lynch" as a symbol of extralegal justice. |
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http://www.sfsu.edu/~news/prsrelea/fy02/058.htm
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| | USATODAY.com - For lynching victims |
| | Seven presidents asked Congress to make lynching a federal crime. | | | State and local authorities often did nothing — and in some cases were active participants. | | | Strong anti-lynching measures passed the House of Representatives three times. |
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http://usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2005-06-12-lynching-edit_x.htm
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| | Melanie Beals Review of Brundage, Lynching in the New South |
| | From this, he concludes that lynching was a distinctively Southern phenomenon which was generated by the social, economic, and political concerns developing after the Civil War. | | | While blacks' crimes were attributed to their race however, white crimes were blamed on the perpetrators' aberrant personalities. | | | It allows him to compare the "geography of lynching" in the two states as well as the efforts to end extra-legal violence in each. |
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http://www.uky.edu/RGS/AppalCenter/beals_b.htm
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| | The Press and Lynchings of African Americans |
| | The New York Times was without question the harshest critic of lynching and provided some of the earliest denunciations. | | | It would also be useful to document changes in news portrayals over time and to examine differences by region and race of the victim. | | | Beasley, M. The muckrakers and lynching: A case study in racism. |
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http://academic.csuohio.edu/perloffr/lynching
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| | Legacies of Lynching |
| | Cinematic representations of lynching, from Birth of a Nation to Do the Right Thing, he contends, further transform the ways that American audiences remember and understand lynching, as have disturbing recent cases in which alleged or actual acts of racial violence reconfigured stereotypes of black criminality. | | | Markovitz further reveals how lynching imagery has been politicized in contemporary society with the example of Clarence Thomas, who condemned the Senate's investigation into allegations of sexual harassment during his Supreme Court confirmation hearings as a “high-tech lynching.” | | | Markovitz credits the efforts of the antilynching movement with helping to ensure that lynching would be understood not as a method of punishment for black rapists but as a terrorist practice that provided stark evidence of the brutality of Southern racism and as America’s most vivid symbol of racial oppression. |
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http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/M/markovitz_legacies.html
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| | The Politburo Diktat: Nonsponsorship = Lynching |
| | Like Capt Ed, quoting paragraphs of lynching history, which he linked to those who supported the judicial nomination compromise. | | | This isn't "scoring points" it is a simple issue - you are either for or against lynching. | | | Why yes, it is, and I'm sure Senator Byrd would agree. |
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http://acepilots.com/mt/archives/002098.html
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| | 06/21/01 - Dismantling America (contd.): That Duluth (!) Guiltfest |
| | There may or may not be “no jobs” in Duluth, but whether there are or not probably has little to do with the racial attitudes of whites. | | | It’s precisely because the lynching was horrible that those who seek to make use of it demand it be resurrected. | | | It might not be a hate crime by modern definitions, but it’s still close enough for guilt-mongers and Afro-racists to exploit it for their own dubious purposes. |
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http://www.vdare.com/francis/dismantling_america_guiltfest.htm
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| | Technorati Tag: lynching |
| | A tag is like a subject or category. | | | Related tags: History, Canada, Racism, Politics, Lynch, Black, Law, Slavery. | | | History Channel Magazine - Free Issue Your guide to the past with thought-provoking stories and photos. |
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| | Whiskey Bar: Strange Fruit |
| | There were no spectators and the perps were sentenced to death and life in prison for their crimes. | | | But you can only argue that line for so long, and after a year in Iraq it should be obvious that we're there to help build democracy. | | | Have to inflame people that won't listen and those who are still willing, by saying, its what Americans do, too. |
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