Lynching

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Lynching
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Lynching

• It is the illegal execution of an accused person
  by a mob. (to execute or punish violently without
  a lawful trial)
• Lynching was a system of punishment to
  African-American slaves.
• Lynching comes from Charles Lynch, a justice of
  peace who administered rough justices in Virginia
  from 1736 to 1796.

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Lynching (continued)

• Whites lynch African-Americans because they
  sometimes broke a law such as to offend a white
  person.
• Sometimes they lynch them because they simply
  hate them or of small offences such as public
  drunkenness or shoplifting.

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Types of lynching

• Race murder, Murder, Rape.
• Most of the lynching was done by hanging.
• all lynching was done to African-Americans, but
  most was done to African-Americans.
• In 1920 census show that the black population was
  9.9 of the U.S. population.

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Lynching of African-American

• Whites lynched African-American for punishment if
  they did something wrong. Most Blacks were
  lynched mostly because of their skin color.

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Lynching in the South

• It has been estimated that between 1880 and 1920,
  an average of 2 African-Americans a week were
  lynched in the U.S.
• The South people still treats African-Americans
  as slaves and as their properties.
• Slaves were popular in the south because they
  have many plantations and in a perfect situation
  to grow cash crops, so they need as much slaves
  as possible.

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Other people that were lynched

• African-American especially, and sometimes Native
  Americans, Latinos, Jews, Asian Immigrants and
  European newcomers.

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People who Tried to stop lynching

• People who tried to stop it were Barnet, Lillian
  Smith, Jessie Daniel Ames, Angelina .a., Weld
  Grime, Georgia Douglas Johnson.

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Who is Emmett Till

• Emmett till was a young man who was brutally
  lynched. He just wanted to hit on a white girl
  who had a husband already. The next day, he got
  kidnapped by two white guys. The two white guys
  went to jail but they couldnt find Emmett Tills
  body. the next four days, they found his dead
  body near a river.

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Continue to Emmett Till

• His left eye was detached form his eye socket and
  a barb wire was wrapped around his neck. His
  mother wanted an open coffin funeral so everyone
  can see what they did to him. Thousands of people
  came to his funeral.

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Emmett Tills lynching was important to the Civil
Rights Movement

• It was important to the Civil Rights Movement
  because it publicized how African-Americans were
  being treated.
• Also writers such as William Bradford Hue
  publicized the Emmett Till case.
• In the case to men were charged for the murder of
  Emmett Till, they were not proven guilty.

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Timeline

• 1905- The Niagara Movement started
• 1906- A race riot and soldier riot
• 1910- Census African-Americans population is
  10.7 of U.S. population
• 1911- The National Urban League began
• 1912- Wilson was elected president
• 1913- A jubilee year
• 1914- World War I started in Europe
• 1915- Washington deceased

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Timeline (continued)

• 1918- World War I ended with 60 lynching
• 1920- Census African-American population is 9.9
  of U.S. population
• 1922- Anti lynching effort started
• 1923- President Harding died
• 1925- Assistant librarian of congress, Daniel
  A.P. Murray died

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Key Facts

• Some lynching are done by executions,
  whippings,brandings,sometimes the public
  separation of families,etc.
• Some important ones are Ida.B.Wells-Barnet (a
  reporter who was against lynching), Franklin
  Delano Roosevelt (a candidate for future
  president at that time).
• After the establishment of the Ku Klux Klan in
  1876,the number if lynching of African- Americans
  increased dramatically.

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Key Facts (continued)

• The Ku Klux Klan is an organization of white
  supremacy that suppress the rights of
  African-Americans.
• There was a decline in lynching during the World
  War I, but more than 70 African-Americans were
  lynched the next year after the war ended.