Southern Lynch Justice
striking example of, "Southern lynch justice" to rouse blacks to action.
Tattered Remains: Horror of Lynching, The
Lynching is a brutal form of oppression intended to silence, intimidate and terrorize African-Americans as well as a few other groups in the South
Subject: lynchings
Transcript: [v. O. W. Fitzhugh brundage:] the image of lynching is Of frontier justice, where there's an absence of courts And there are criminals that have to
LYNCHING POSTCARDS: TOKEN OF A GREAT DAY
From 1880 to 1968, over 4000 African Americans were lynched in the United States. Like picnics or parties, lynchings were often carnival-like events
Degrees of Whiteness
Professor of American studies and history Matthew Frye Jacobson talks about violence carried out against immigrants, as well as a curious duality in the way European immigrants were viewed in the early twentieth century. Professor Jacobson explains ...
Subject: lynching
Transcript: , and there were a cause celeb, A case of a lynching of eleven italians in new orleans. And as you go back through the history of lynching, i mean, It
Part 2: "100 Years of Lynching" by Ralph Ginzburg
Warning: explicit images. Thousands came out to watch the torture and killing of Black Americans. Zimbardo notes that in order to witness such events without empathy, victims must first be dehumanized.
Part 1: "100 Years of Lynching" by Ralph Ginzburg
Warning: explicit images. The postcard industry in the U.S. was stimulated by pictures of lynchings of Black Americans; witnesses/participants sent
1893 - Ida B. Wells-Barnett Crusades Against Black Lynching in America
Ida B. Wells-Barnett, the first of the Black women Civil Rights activists, crusaded against Black lynching.