In Ida B. Wells’ works Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases and A Red Record, Ida B. Wells argues against the lynching of African Americans of the time. Wells’ uses many strategies and techniques to make her arguments as convincing as possible throughout her works. She also uses clear language and well-structured sentences to make it clear what she is arguing. Ida B. Wells makes sure to use statistics and offers rebuttals to the opposing side’s point of view to strengthen her argument. Wells presents these arguments by isolating and clearly stating the problem, giving descriptive and specific examples, using statistics, and offering rebuttals.
Wells uses logos to state the horrific facts regarding lynchings from 1882-1893 in her effort to get organizations to protect the constitutional rights of Black People. Wells writes “that less than one-fourth of the persons hanged, shot and burned by white Christians were even accused of the usual crime--that of assaulting white women. ”(Wells 5). The usage of Logos supports the author's purpose because the author uses facts to support her argument and urge for government action. The misrepresented lynching statistics are used by the author to demonstrate that the victims of the lynch mobs were largely innocent; only one-third of lynching victims were convicted of rape.
I had known about lynching before this book however Dr. DeGruy goes into detail about the horrific acts. She explains how men that went though no legal process were brutally beaten burned and lynched simply because they talked or looked a white women or simply just stood up for them self. Its disgust me that people would take pictures and treat a lynching like a joyful ceremony. It is disturbing to think that another man would cut off another man 's body parts and keep them as a souvenir. This really made think about the atrocities that were committed in our country that no one has paid
Southern Horrors Lynch Law in All Its Phases Book Review Da B. Wells-Barnett has written the book under review. The book has been divided into six chapters that cover the various themes that author intended to fulfill. The book is mainly about the Afro-Americans and how they were treated within the American society in the late 1800s. The first chapter of the book is “the offense” band this is the chapter that explains the issues that have been able to make the Afro-American community to be treated in a bad way by the whites in the United States in the late 1800s.
In a lynching, a mob of Klansmen and their supporters carry out a murder on an African American, usually in the form of a hanging (4). The mob would then leave the body out for a public display as a warning sign to others (6). If the victim was a women, sexual assault and rape were not uncommon nor were they out of the question (4). The most common reason for a lynching was that a black male had sought sexual relations with a white woman in some form (6). The Klan would carry out lynching's under the predication that they were protecting the community
At first, I thought the writing was a bit convoluted because of certain aspects that I didn't understand--southern language. Karen Brennan grew up in Columbus Georgia therefor her speech in her writing displays Southern contacts. True indeed she was writing with the perception of the 1920s period. However, one particular quote on page 156 further clarified the Lynch Mob warning to the sheriff. In the author's own words, "get out of Dodge."
There have been many cases revolving around lynching. For instance, the famous case of Emmit Till, a young African American boy brutally murdered. Before the murder, Till decided to whistle at a white woman named Carolyn Bryant. Consequently, little did Till know that the funny joke of a whistle would cause him great misery and agony. On the night of the tragedy, two men, Roy Bryant, and J.W. Milam, went to Till’s granduncle's house looking for Till.
Wells & Tillman Analysis African Americans have been and still are subjected to centuries of mistreatment, from forced slavery and being treated as animals, to lynchings and segregation. While blacks were finally free and granted some rights, many citizens and especially politicians, mostly in the South, have done anything and everything to make black lives hell while trying to hide the racism with loopholes. Ida B. Wells wrote a pamphlet titled Southern Horrors: Lynch Laws In All Its Phases, which covers several lynchings in the year of 1892 and how whites celebrated them and made excuses to justify them. One of the politicians mentioned by Wells was Senator Tillman of South Carolina, who himself gave a speech in 1900 regarding the lynchings
In the five years going before the war, swarms every now and again searched out presumed slave dissidents and white abolitionists. The most genuine flare-up of this sort happened in North Texas in 1860, when bits of gossip about a slave revolt prompted the lynching of an expected 30 to 50 slaves and perhaps more than 20 whites. The worries of the Common War, for example, bigotry, provincial loyalties, political factionalism, financial pressure, and the development of the cancellation development, injured individuals to savagery in a way that appeared to make lynching progressively simple to mull over. War-created strains delivered the best mass lynching ever, the Incomparable Hanging at Gainesville, when vigilantes hanged 41 suspected Unionists amid a 13 day time span in October
Jim Crow was not a person, it was a series of laws that imposed legal segregation between white Americans and African Americans in the American South. It promoting the status “Separate but Equal”, but for the African American community that was not the case. African Americans were continuously ridiculed, and were treated as inferiors. Although slavery was abolished in 1865, the legal segregation of white Americans and African Americans was still a continuing controversial subject and was extended for almost a hundred years (abolished in 1964). Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated South is a series of primary accounts of real people who experienced this era first-hand and was edited by William H.Chafe, Raymond
The word lynching means, to put to death, especially by hanging. Throughout history, dominant groups have used lynching as a way of controlling minorities. Willie Lynch process was effective during those times because his psychological methods started the division between black people. This document is allegedly given three hundred years ago.
Many historians, researchers, politicians, and scholars have considered reconstruction as turning point for the ratification of equality laws that would eliminate racial segregation for equally rights. However, a close follow-up of the controversial developments that occurred immediately after the end of the Civil War in 1865 indicates dissimilarity. The reconstruction era might have made a history of enabling African Americans to vote and become state legislatures, but some major political personnel consider Reconstruction as a failure, which led to non-ending political controversies, murder, and assaults indicating general failure. Robert Smalls and Wade Hampton are some of the major political people who participated in the continuity of the Reconstruction era and their actions and words prove its failure, as explored in this study. However, their consideration of black freedom contrast because Smalls demonstrates the harmful actions of
On January 18, 1982 the headlines read “WIDOW STABBED TO DEATH” of the small town local newspaper read just one day after the body of prominent wealthy white widow Dorothy Edwards was found in the bedroom closet of her home in the upscale neighborhood in Greenwood, South Carolina. “Most of Greenwood’s murders were in the black neighborhood- blacks killing blacks in barroom brawls, over money or a woman, or in domestic disputes. The perpetrator was usually caught quickly, often with a gun or knife still in his possession. Those crimes didn’t particularly disturb the white community. This one did!”
Eleanor Roosevelt’s Battle to End Lynching. " Blog of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum. The National Archives, 12 Feb. 2016. Web.
The 11 were falsely accused of being members or associated with the Mafia. This incident was the largest mass lynching in United States history. Lynching’s of Italian-Americans occurred mostly in the deep South but also had occurred in N.Y., PA., and Colorado. The toll of lynching’s began to taper off a lot in the 1930s and 1940s. This period was drawing to a close in the early 1940s with the rise of black political power in the northern cities, the advent or a coming into being of the 2nd World War and the early stages of the Civil Rights Movement.
