The Lynch Law On African American Farmers In The Late 1800s

Between 1865 and 1900 farmers, African Americans, and businesspeople were affected by conditions such as poverty, prejudice, and pride. Farmers were greatly affected by poverty from the unfair pricing of railroads (Proceedings). African Americans struggled with prejudice, as the lynch law came into play (Wells). And, (some) businesspeople dealt with the pride of thinking that their job and type of work was more important (Supreme Court Cases on Granger Laws). 
 Life as a farmer in the later 1800’s was not easy. Farming was “…rapidly extinguishing all debts and restoring an equilibrium to the currency of the country…” (Proceedings). But, for the farmer as a person, life was incredibly difficult. Farmers were often treated as less-than citizens and were harmed by the overpriced elements of the railroad. In a summary of Grange’s national meeting farmers were described as “…toiling laborers [who] are humiliated in their poverty” (Proceedings). The injustice shown to farmers resulted in the creation of the Grange organization which took cases to court and convinced federal government laws to be made to protect them. In 1886 the farmers finally found themselves victorious when they won in

In the later 1800’s and early 1900’s the lynch law was created. The phrase lynch law “…refers to instances in which mobs, not juries, would decide whether people who have been accused of crimes were guilty (Wells). These mobs had the “…right to sentence people and execute them, usually by hanging” (Wells). Between 1882 and 1900 over 3,000 people were and a majority of them were African Americans living in the South. African Americans were lynched for a variety of reasons including prevention of negro domination, engaging in a fight with a white man, not exposing the hiding places of wanted relatives, and all other offenses “…from murders to misdemeanors…” (Wells). Their lives were taken publicly and