Alternative Extra Credit due tomorrow Weird Brazil fact Hand back tests Lynching and race riots lecture Barriers to voting Objective Question How did violence prevent blacks from obtaining equal rights socially and politically ID: 600873
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Violence Cont. 10/14/13
Alternative Extra Credit due tomorrow
Weird Brazil fact
Hand back tests
Lynching and race riots lecture
Barriers to voting
Objective Question:
How did violence prevent blacks from obtaining equal rights socially and politically?Slide2
Objective Question: How did violence permeate American society?Slide3
Lynching and Violence
Lynching:
The use of vigilante justice to punish/kill those accused of breaking the law.
Commonly used against African Americans after the Civil War to prevent them from exercising their rights and to enforce an unwritten code of behavior.
Usually hanging or shooting, or both.Slide4
Lynching Statistics
Stats not gathered until 1882.
Chicago newspaper began tracking reports
Later Tuskegee Institute and NAACP began tracking too
Between 1882-1968 Over 4,730
lynchings
reported, of which 3,437 were African AmericanSlide5
Causes
White Southerners claimed they only occurred when AAs raped white women
Evidence doesn’t support this assertion
41% of lynching victims accused of murder
25% accused of rape
Other causes include robbery, insulting a white person
Evidence suggests 1/3 of lynching victims were falsely accused of wrongdoingSlide6
Where
Most
lynchings
took place in the South/Border states
½ of all victims in 5 states: MS, GA, TX, LA, AL
Most often in small, rural communities
Often because whites found themselves in direct economic competition
w
ith AAs.
Lynchings
often an “event” – sometimes advertised in local newspapers, postcards created
Law enforcement often looked the other way, or were active participants – maybe as high as 50% of lynching cases.Slide7
Race Riots
In addition to lynching, the early 20
th
century saw a number of race riots
26 race riots in the “Red Summer” of 1919
Chicago most famous
13
days of rioting, 178 whites and 347 blacks killed
1,000 families left homeless due to property destructionSlide8
Some Commonalities
Most race riots started when whites attacked blacks
Most occurred at a time of great social/economic change
Rumors/unfounded accusations helped spark most race riots
The police either were active participants in the riot or failed to act
The fighting took place within Black neighborhoods/communities