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Lynching and African Americans

Lynching and African Americans. The lynching of Laura Nelson and her son, several dozen onlookers. May 25, 1911, Okemah, Oklahoma. Lynching. It is the execution of an accused person by a mob. (to execute or punish violently without a lawful trial)

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Lynching and African Americans

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  1. Lynching and African Americans

  2. The lynching of Laura Nelson and her son, several dozen onlookers. May 25, 1911, Okemah, Oklahoma.

  3. Lynching • It is the 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 punishments

  4. 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.

  5. Types of lynching • Race murder, Murder, Rape. • Most of the lynching was done by hanging. • Mostly African-Americans and some whites were lynched

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

  7. Ku Klux Klan • Started in TN after the Civil War • An organization of white supremacy that suppress the rights of African-Americans and other minorities • Had over 2 million members in the 1920’s

  8. According to the Tuskegee Institute, 4,742 lynchings occurred between 1882-1968. 90% of the victims were Southern 73% of the victims were black 27% of the victims were white

  9. Jim Crow Violence: How did African Americans resist? • Spoke out against discrimination • Organized boycotts of segregated facilities • Tried to improve segregated facilities Segregated School

  10. The Great Migration Because of lynching and the unfairness of sharecropping Thousands of African American’s Moved to northern or western citites such as New York, Chicago, or Detroit.

  11. An African American who wanted blacks to go back to Africa Marcus Garvey

  12. Ida B. Wells Ida B. Wells Born in Holly Spring, MS Newspaper writer She spoke out against lynching in her newspaper in Memphis, TN She had to town before she was lynched

  13. Primary Source By Ida B.Wells; “Although lynching have steadily increased in number and barbarity during the last 20yrs, there has been no single effort put forth by the many moral and philanthropic forces of the country to put a stop to this wholesale slaughter”.

  14. NAACP National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Founded in 1909 by W.E.B. DuBois and others Called for the equal treatment of African Americans

  15. The Harlem Renaissance • A cultural and literary movement centered in Harlem.

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