Lynching defined According to the NAACP lynching is 1 an act of killing 2 the killing must be illegal 3 three or more people must have taken part in the killing 4 the killers must claim to be serving either justice or tradition ID: 489338
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LynchingSlide2
Lynching, defined
According to the NAACP, lynching is…
1. an act of killing
2. the killing must be illegal
3. three or more people must have taken part in the killing
4. the killers must claim to be serving either justice or traditionSlide3
86 Years of Lynchings
Causes Of Lynchings, 1882-1968
Number
Percent
Homicides
1,937
40.84
Felonious Assault
205
4.32
Rape
912
19.22
Attempted Rape
288
6.07
Robbery and Theft
232
4.89
Insult to White Person
85
1.79
All Other Causes
1,084
22.85
Total
4,743
100.00Slide4
WARNING: THE FOLLOWING IMAGES ARE
VERY GRAPHIC
AND DISTURBING
“We must first give statistics, which are horrible enough, and then a few details, which are more horrible.”
-- P. Thomas Stanford,
The Tragedy of the Negro in AmericaSlide5
1893: Henry SmithSlide6
1911: Laura NelsonSlide7
1916: Jessie WashingtonSlide8
1920: Duluth lynchingSlide9
1930: Thomas Shipp & Abram SmithSlide10
Strange Fruit
Written by Abel
Meeropol
Performed by Billie
Holiday
Southern
trees bear strange fruit
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root
Black bodies swinging n the southern breeze
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees
Pastoral scene of the gallant south
The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth
Scent of magnolias, sweet and fresh
Then the sudden smell of burning flesh
Here
is the fruit for crows to pluck
For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck
For the sun to rot, for the trees to drop
Here is a strange and bitter cropSlide11
Lynching Narratives
You have been given excerpts from
The Tragedy of the Negro in America
, by P. Thomas Stanford. Read your excerpt carefully, and answer the following questions.
1. What is the name of the person who was lynched?
2. What was the crime lynched person was accused of?
3. Was there any evidence or proof of guilt offered?
4. What was the method of execution?
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. Did the
lynchers
kill the person they intended to kill?
6. Which detail from the story stood out to you? Why?
7. Is this an example of justice or injustice? Why?