Tuesday, March 17, 2009

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(http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1979/2/79.02.04.x.html)) The history, 1880 t0 around 1940 of the nineteenth century the lynching of black peoplein the southern states On this web and it say that lynching’s open public murder of individuals suspected of crime conceived and out more or less spontaneously by mobs. The Negro which led white mob to turn to “lynch law as a means of social control. Lynching was as the most effective means of control. Some of the lynching not only by hanging, but sometime shooting or both. More hideous nature-castration, dismemberment, maims. They also did racial riot or race riot what that mean is an outbreak of violent civil disorder. The big one was the summer of 1919 “the red summer” by James Weldon Johnson. The sever most serious race riots were those which occurred in Wilmington, n.c (1898) Atlanta, ga (1906),

Springfiled East St.Loust)Ill.(1917), Chicago,Ill . (1919), Tulsa, Okla. (1921) and Detroit, Mich. (1943) One of the south's most sensational riots occured in Atlanta Georgia in Setember1906.



1917- East St Louis, Illionis riot was touched off by the fear of white working men that Negro advances in economic.




Same year July 1 whites in a ford drove through the maid Nergo district, shooting into home.Investigators estimated that between one hunderd to two hundred blacks were killed.





1919-The worst of the post-War race riot took place in chicago, Illionis. It began later in july when a young black "encroached" upon a swimming area that the whites had marked off for themselvers, and was stoned until he downed.



By the time the riot end over thousand were die,178 Whites and 343 Black werwe injured, fifteen whites and twenty-three negroes were killed.




1921-Tulsa , Oklahoma riot took place from May31 to June1, an white girl charegwd a black youth with attempted rape in an elevator in a public building .Fifty whites and between 150 and 200 black were killed.


The history of lynching gone so far back that some are lost that you can not find them.


Black victims of lynch mobs by the state,1882-1930


Deep South
Mississippi/462


Georgia/423


Lousiianan/283


Alabama/262


South Carolina/143


Border South
Flordia/212
Tennessee/987
Arkansas/118
Nother Carolina/75

Black victims of lynching per 100,000 blacks by State, 1882-1930
Deep South
Mississsippi/52.8
Georgia/41.8
Louisiana/43.7
Alabama/32.4
South Carolina/18.8


Border South



Florida/79.8


Tennessee/42.6


Arkansas/45.6


Kentucky/45.7


North Carolina/11.0



Lynchings. Forty-nine black Americans are known to have been lynched in 1882.And the same year Booker T. Washington became the first principal of Tuskegee Institute in Tuskegee, Alabama, on July 4.
Lynchings. Fifty-three black Americans are known to have been lynched in 1883.Same year, On November 3, white conservatives in Danville, Virginia, seized control of the local government, racially integrated and popularly elected, killing four African-Americans in the process.
Lynchings. Fifty-one black Americans are known to have been lynched in 1884 and Cleveland elected president. Grover Cleveland (Democrat) was elected president on November 4
Seventy-four black Americans are known to have been lynched in 1885. On June 25, African-American Samuel David Ferguson was ordained a bishop of the Episcopal Church. Two of America's first black-owned banks -- the Savings Bank of the Grand Fountain United Order of the Reformers, in Richmond Virginia, and Capital Savings Bank of Washington, DC, opened their doors.

2 comments:

  1. Ms. Vega,

    I like the way you are not simply copying the information from your credible source, but putting it into your own words and explaining why it is important. Keep it up.

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  2. Ms. Vega,

    Fix the link you have here. It's no longer working.

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