ipl-logo

Jim Crow Laws Against Lynching Essay

1317 Words6 Pages

After the Jim Crow Laws of the 1890s, white mobs flourished. With the black’s banned from voting, jury service, and public office, no one felt the need to respect the minority. “Between 1882 (when reliable statistics were first collected) and 1968 (when the classic forms of lynching had disappeared), four thousand seven hundred and forty three persons died of lynching, three thousand four hundred and forty six of them black men and women” (Zangrando). There were many more cases of lynching’s that were never reported beyond their community. White families would bring their children, newspapers would give advanced notices, and railroad agents sold tickets announcing the lynching sites. Mobs would even cut off black victims fingers, ears, genitalia, and toes as souvenirs. Lynching started as a punishment for crime, but became a ritual for interracial social control. (Zangrando) In spring of 1892, a 15 year old girl from Louisiana was hung with a charge of poisoning a white person. With more investigation, after the 15 year old had died, they found out that the husband did it. The husband died a raving manic, and his ravings showed …show more content…

Martin Luther King Jr., the leader of the modern American civil rights movement. He let everyone know, during his speech, a law against lynching would help stop all the lynching that is occurring, without anyone’s help to stop it. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said, “It may be true that the law cannot make a man love [him], but can keep him from lynching [him], and [he] thinks that’s pretty important.” He was saying that if anyone could do anything about it, it would stop lynching from happening. There are many cases of lynching were people of the town or city would make posters and tell who, when, and where, people were being lynched. City or town officials would even join out in the crowd and watch with all the other towns’ people. It was a joy or an activity for them to sit there and watch people get hurt and

Show More
Related
847 Words | 4 Pages

Wells (pg. 117). Even though African Americans had been “free” for thirty-five years by 1900, they still faced discrimination, violence, disenfranchisement, segregation and lynching. Lynching occurred when a mob of people (usually white) decided that someone (usually black) was guilty and deserved to be put to death without a trial or any other legal benefits guaranteed to all American citizens (pg. 117). These killers tried to justify their acts by stating that they were following an “unwritten law”, especially when any white woman claimed that a black man harmed her (pg. 117). Wells explained that blacks of all races and genders were lynched for reasons such as raising concerns about their work contracts, for unfounded claims that they burned buildings, and for displaying courage by standing up for themselves (pg. 117).

Read More
873 Words | 4 Pages

Another popular method to cause intimidation and fear among blacks was lynching. These lynchings would range from a few townsmen hanging a black man at night, to a grand spectacle with hundreds if not thousands of onlookers. The victims of these lynchings were almost always innocent people who were wrongly accused of some heinous crime, often rape or murder. They would then be tortured in ways one can only imagine; chopping off the fingers, toes and genitalia of the victim and selling them as souvenirs to the onlookers. They would then either be shot or burned, then hung up on a tree for everyone to see.

Read More
350 Words | 2 Pages

One of the Jim Crow laws states that “A black male could not offer any part of his body to a White woman because he risked being accused of rape”(a). Tom Robinson would know of this rule and would not even shake hands with Mayella, let alone kiss her. He would know that if anyone saw him going into her house he could be accused of rape. However, if he didn’t enter her house when she asked, he would be accused of not showing “superiority to blacks in all important ways”, another Jim Crow law. Since, Tom knows of these rules he makes the decision to enter her house and show respect, but when he see’s Mr. Ewell approaching her house he runs in fear of being accused of rape.

Read More
647 Words | 3 Pages

On December 11, 1934, members of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People protested against lynching in Washington, D.C. Most of the victims of lynching were blacks. The justification for lynching was the accusation of rape or sexual assault of a white woman by a black man. However, the lynching of the blacks during the era of slavery was infrequent. “Chapter 5: 'Fearsome Reminders of Their Status': The Crusade Against Lynching.

Read More
210 Words | 1 Pages

The Jim Crow Laws were used for ignorant thing such as segregation the reason why the jim crow laws were made is because after slavery the white folks didn't want the black folks to have to same opportunities the white folks did. Example the children of the african american descent were not allowed the same education the the white folks did or buses the bus waiting rooms were segregated. One of our presidents was a white man who ended slavery and his name was abraham lincoln he pushed for the idea to the other president to get rid of racism and segregation. Martin luther king was the leader of all of this ‘’The end of segregation’’ people that helped push the movement was Rosa parks she was brave in the fact that she would not give up her

Read More
161 Words | 1 Pages

3) The Jim Crow laws were in U.S. history, it began in the 1950s, and with the civil rights movement. statutes enacted by Southern states and municipalities. Later after it, civil rights movements, the law reached supreme court and they decided that it was not constitutional. It was the separations between blacks and whites.

Read More
744 Words | 3 Pages

The deadliest year in the U.S. history for lynching was 1892, when 70 percent of the 230 people were African- Americans (Robert L. Hall). Lynching was a murder for religious and racial reasons (Susan Altman). The lynch mobs were racist and targeted blacks, very few whites, and Asian (Susan Altman). They directed their anger at blacks that voted, owned land, were successful in business, ran for office, and were the leaders of the community (Susan Altman).

Read More
531 Words | 3 Pages

Lastly, violence against black people was very prominent during the Jim Crow era. The statistics for the amounts of black deaths from violence is outrageous. Fremon wrote, “In 1890 until 1917, on average, two to three blacks in the South were illegally hanged, burned, or otherwise murdered every week” (Fremon 37). Two to three black people were killed every week. The amount of abuse was so much and was for random minor “crimes” and sometimes black were even falsely accused.

Read More
1141 Words | 5 Pages

Student Name The illustration of the US current state based on the differences of Jim Crow, and mass incarceration Jim crow is defined as a term that explains the racial case system that operated primarily, and not exclusively in the southern borders of the United States between 1877 up to until mid 1960’s. The activities that took place during this time period were more than a series of rigid anti-black laws as most of those who carried the activities considered it to be a way of life for them. On the other hand, mass incarceration is a term that is used to refer to a unique way that the administration of the United States of America has locked up a large number of populations in both federal and state prisons.

Read More
413 Words | 2 Pages

Background and race america, to begin with, a person having origins in any of the original people of North and South america , race and ethnicity standards are determined by the U.S of management and budget, the united states has a racially diverse population slavery, jim crow laws , was named of the racial caste system Many strategies were used to fight for civil rights and success and failures were experienced along the way to achieving their goals So some of the Strategies they used , jim crow laws, by 1838 became a priority expression meaning “nigro” when southern legislatures passed laws of racial segregation directed against blacks , legal cases and achieving a goal like fighting for civil rights and experienced there failures along

Read More
1637 Words | 7 Pages

Most mobs were composed of around 12-100's of people usually poor, illiterate whites whose economic status was similar to an African-Americans. They saw African-American men as competitors. Some higher status whites were involved and many politicians were in favor of "lynch-law" (Robert A Gibson, 1). Many lynch law members saw lynching as a protection of "The Southern Way of Life" (Fitzhugh Brundage, 167). Lynching was a community affair and state authorities often didn’t punish mobs.

Read More
467 Words | 2 Pages

These Jim Crow laws that are currently being passed are absurd and uncivil! No human is more important than any other human, meaning that we do not need special spacing for whites or blacks. All human beings should be treated equally TOGETHER and should be able to interact with each other without any hesitation. There is not one valid reason as to why humans should be separated by their race, color, religion or gender. These laws just create more anger throughout the country than there already is and at the moment, we need more peace within ourselves.

Read More
600 Words | 3 Pages

is a means of victimizing a specific people or if it is directed towards a certain race. This is because the distributive principles may provide guidance for choices faced by each society every now and then. One may start by considering the principle of strict egalitarianism that states that people are morally equal and that it is best to give effect to this idea. We get the information that in dispensing criminal justice, one community or race should not get overlooked but all should be treated fairly. In the book by alexander Michael that goes by the title "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness" she tends to believe

Read More
765 Words | 4 Pages

im Crow Lives in the American Criminal Justice System “[B]lack men in their prime working years, especially those without a high school diploma, are much more likely to be in jail than white men are” (Gao). The American Criminal Justice System’s inherent racism has not been diminished, but reformed since the Jim Crow era. The reformed Jim Crow laws have caused this new idea of color blindness and the media’s portrayal of African Americans’ negatively influence society’s thoughts and encourages the reformed Jim Crow in our Justice System. In todays society Jim Crow still exists; however, it has been reformed to blend in with our Criminal Justice System.

Read More
1342 Words | 6 Pages

Lynchings took the lives of many African Americans, they became so absurd one could argue that black people's lives were little to no value at all. Tension had grown greatly, especially in the Southern parts of the United States. Many of the people of the south accused that the freeing slaves had a great impact on their financial problems. As a result of many whites being angered at the black people for not having the freedom that they all have by the thirteenth amendment, they still wanted to kill thus reverted to lynching. Many saw Lynching as entertainment and would take photographs to put in their family photo albums, and or make them into postcards.

Read More

More about Jim Crow Laws Against Lynching Essay

Open Document